Bootstraps Quotes - Page 1

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Martin Luther King, Jr. / Civil Rights Activist
Men
Bootstraps
Injustice
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
Karin Slaughter / Writer
American Dream
Bootstraps
American Dream American Dream
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Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.
Peter Abrahams / Novelist
Dream
Bootstraps
Changed
Lost Friendship
Magic
Carried
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Vladimir Lenin / Revolutionary
Business
Men
Bootstraps
Capable
Lifting
Sacrifice
Self Sacrifice
Capitalists
Himself
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They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.
Andrew Mitchell / British Politician
Bootstraps
Length
Realizing
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Randi Weingarten / Attorney
Bootstraps
Collective
Pull
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If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Bootstraps
Motto
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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
Upton Sinclair / Author
Bootstraps
Incredibles
Strange
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If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.
Abby Lee Miller /
Ability
Bootstraps
Made
Stronger
Come
Mistakes
Whatever
Over
Learn
Pick
Start
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We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.
Nipsey Hussle / Rapper
Bootstraps
Building
Inspiration
Staying
Hustler
Represent
Down
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It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
Martin Luther King, Jr. / Civil Rights Activist
Equality
Men
Bootstraps
Jest
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I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.
Shelley Hennig / Actress
Band
Bootstraps
Secret
Favorite
Circle
Cults
Our Music
Puts
Soundtrack
Supervisor
Washed
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I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.
Michael Eric Dyson / Author
Believe
Bootstraps
Changed
Diapers
Individualism
People
Self
Self Made
Wayne
Believe Your People
Case
Believe People Your
John
Pull
Themselves
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I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.
Penn Jillette / Illusionist
Bootstraps
Pain
Poverty
Because
Own
Help
Pull
Suffer
Themselves
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Appreciation
Smile
Teacher
Bent
Boots
Bootstraps
Ivy
Ivy League
League
Parent
Pulling
Retirement
Teaching
Because
Down
Few
Got
Helped
Ourselves
None
Nuns
Up
Pick
Solely
Where
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My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work at the time. And in rural Oklahoma, that wasn't easy to find.
Chuck Norris / Martial Artist
Depression
Bootstraps
Great Depression
Moved
Oklahoma
Time Family Work
Family Work Time
Pulled
Rural
Wherever
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It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.
Ron Fournier / Journalist
Dream
Bootstraps
Country
Extraordinary
Hard Work
Presidency
God People America
Appeal
Freedom-Loving
Hard-Working
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President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?
Ron Fournier / Journalist
America
Bootstraps
Casting
Community
Connected
Counting
Debate
President
President Obama
Pulling
Rugged
Individualist
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People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.
Carolyn Chute / Writer
Bootstraps
Work Where People
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We're all about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, et cetera - I think that's a harmful mythology, that the choices that we make and the things that we do in our lives are not connected to anything else. So I'd like to help to debunk that.
Jesmyn Ward / Novelist
Bootstraps
Mythology
Harmful
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Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.
Julian Castro / Former Mayor Of San Antonio
Opportunity
Believe
Bootstraps
Rugged
Texas
Tomorrow
Invest
Pull
Recognize
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Many movies about people recovering, moving on, and redeeming themselves are really wonderful and inspiring. But I think the more sentimental ones that are less good make me feel isolated - like, if you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the guys in the movies, there is something wrong with you. That's a shame.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Inspiring
Moving On
Bootstraps
Isolated
Recovering
Sentimental
Pull
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Little by little, the U.S. has allowed questionable domestic policies to chip away at the only hope poor students have at a better future. The Right Wing loves to distract voters from these realities by making it seem as though the poor remain so because they lack the work ethic necessary to 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps.'
Ana Kasparian /
Better Future
Bootstraps
Poor
Questionable
Voters
Work Ethic
Future Work Hope
Allowed
Chip
Distract
Domestic
Ethic
Loves
Work Future Hope
Policies
Pull
Realities
Remain
Seem
Wing
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We continue to see our elected officials working extra hard to create a 'good climate for business' that leads to disinvestment in public infrastructure and tax incentives to the detriment of cities, while enriching private business and further entrenching poverty. And our cities are told by legislators to use their bootstraps to survive.
Rashida Tlaib /
Bootstraps
Cities
Elected Officials
Enriching
Incentives
Infrastructure
Legislators
Officials
Poverty
Tax
Detriment
Elected
Extra
Further
Leads
Private
Survive
To Survive
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