Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.
We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.
You get a team that goes out there and they find a little bit of something that advantage is going to seem larger then it is if the rules were not as tight because it's harder for other people to find whatever that advantage may be. I'm not saying points leader Tony Stewart has a huge advantage. What they've got is that they are hitting everything exactly right. When they have everything working just right, that's how it shows to be dominant.
If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile. ' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
My goal in life is to become an adjective.