Poor presentation can make great art look terrible. Good presentation can make terrible art look great.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions.
My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'
The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
