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The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star. -- Marin Ireland
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. -- Robert Reich
James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols. -- Jon Landau
We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to. -- Si Robertson
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism. -- Charles A. Reich
[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that. -- Deborah Kerr
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy. -- Diana Ross
Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food. -- Waverley Root
Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it. -- Casey Stengel
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly. -- Brian Tracy
In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories. -- Richard Lederer
The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality. -- Robert Fulton
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you. -- Brian Tracy
While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control. -- Howard Zinn
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story. -- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy. -- Diana Ross

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