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I dont think people understand that being poor means you have to w

I dont think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think theres some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. – Emma Thompson

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I understand what its like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, Shes got her daughter shes got her husband. Yeah, but she hasnt got anyone else. – Emma Thompson

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But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel Ive failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I dont get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. – Emma Thompson

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This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls! – Emma Thompson

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I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. Thats not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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I dont pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. – Theodore Roosevelt

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God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross. – Charles Stanley

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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! – Og Mandino

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There it is: it doesnt make any difference who we are or what we are, theres always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about. – Mark Twain

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