1 | -> Was I once like you, scratching a living in the gutter? Certainly. But the difference is, now I am not. |
2 | -->-- '''Chartist Captain Elizabeth Meshinchells''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' |
3 | |
4 | ->''"Well, next thing you know, ol' Jed's a millionaire."'' |
5 | -->--''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'' |
6 | |
7 | ->''"I've been rich and I've been poor\ |
8 | Rich is better, so much better"'' |
9 | -->--'''Music/VanHalen''', "As Is" |
10 | |
11 | ->''Two cups, toast up with the gang\ |
12 | From food stamps to a whole 'nother domain\ |
13 | Out the bottom, I'm the livin' proof\ |
14 | Ain't compromising, half a million on the coupe'' |
15 | -->--'''Future''', "Mask Off" |
16 | |
17 | ->''Ayy, I remember syrup sandwiches and crime allowances\ |
18 | Finesse a nigga with some counterfeits, but now I’m countin' this\ |
19 | Parmesan where my accountant lives; in fact, I'm downin’ this\ |
20 | D'USSÉ with my boo bae tastes like Kool-Aid for the analysts'' |
21 | -->--'''Music/KendrickLamar''', "HUMBLE." |
22 | |
23 | ->''"My start, my childhood was less than auspicious. But, when I was young, we didn't know we lacked anything because we had nothing to compare it to. And there's a freedom in that. I had a very hard-working mother and father, I think about them a great deal. I got my break, big break, when I was 5 years old, and it's taken me more than 70 years to realize it. You see, at 5, I learned to read. It's that simple and it's that profound. I left school at 13, I didn't have a formal education, and I do not believe I'd be standing here tonight without the books, the plays, the scripts. It's been a long journey from Fountainbridge to this evening with you. Though my feet are tired, my heart is not."'' |
24 | -->-- '''Creator/SeanConnery''', 2006 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech |
25 | |
26 | ->''"Yeah, I was a bartender. Now I own a boat."'' |
27 | -->--'''Mortgage Broker''', ''Film/TheBigShort'' |
28 | |
29 | ->''I know I'd go from rags to riches\ |
30 | If you would only say you care\ |
31 | And though my pocket may be empty\ |
32 | I'd be a millionaire\ |
33 | My clothes may still be torn and tattered\ |
34 | But in my heart I'd be a king\ |
35 | Your love is all that ever mattered\ |
36 | It's everything\ |
37 | So open your arms and you'll open the door\ |
38 | To every treasure that I'm hopin' for\ |
39 | Hold me and kiss me and tell me you're mine ever more\ |
40 | Must I forever be a beggar\ |
41 | Whose golden dreams will not come true?\ |
42 | Or will I go from rags to riches?\ |
43 | My fate is up to you'' |
44 | -->--'''Tony Bennett''', "Rags To Riches" |
45 | |
46 | ->''"When I came here, I had nothing but my name and my wits. A man in a place like this, surviving on those two things alone, he suffers indignities, slights, ridicule... But I overcame it. I used the wits to build the name."'' |
47 | -->--'''Jack Rackham''', ''Series/BlackSails'' |
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