#rated

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#bed #better #better life #children #emigrated

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#always #american #celebrated #character #could

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#basic idea #benefit #concur #country #economic

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#heard #i #musicians #think #underrated

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#creative #fashion #had #his #homeless

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life. ↗

— Sting

#canada #emigrated #found #friend #guitar

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#accomplishes #admired #celebrated #class #firm

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#bitter #emotions #first #frustrated #hurt

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#avails #become #character #city #dares

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated