Greta Gerwig Quotes

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

When Kogi started, I was dead broke, selling tacos on the street just to survive.

New York reminds me of what my career was like when I lived here, so when I walk through the streets, I remember when I had ten bucks in my pocket and all I could eat is Chipotle.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.