Ms Amoruso's tale is the very essence of rags to riches.
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Yeah, this is a real rags to riches story for ol' Dan.
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She is the classic American rags-to-riches, entrepreneurial success story, Paul.
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It's the rags-to-riches story of a poor boy done well.
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Property mogul Zhang Xin's story is a classic "rags to riches" tale.
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The rags-to-riches story behind that app is also quite interesting.
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In reality, the American story is not a rags to riches story.
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At home, his rags-to-riches story has earned him loyal admirers.
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Few genres romanticize rags-to-riches stories the way country music does.
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It's an inspiring rags-to-riches story that also offers valuable leadership .
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He said Mexico contained a wealth of potential rags-to-riches stories.
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But he is far from the only Hollywood rags to riches success story.
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Don't cry for Lawrence though — cream cheese drove his rags to riches story.
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Ujiri's story has been described by CNN as a "rags to riches" tale.
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Rewind Rags-to-riches gangster films flooded the market in the early 1930s.
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The story of the mobster is the rags-to-riches story of the underdog.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures is even making a movie about his rags-to-riches story.
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He was impressed by Ansari's rags-to-riches tale and happy-go-lucky attitude.
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Lily Eskelsen Garcia's story isn't exactly a rags-to-riches tale in the traditional sense.
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According to cultural historian Arafat Razzaque, Diyab's rags-to-riches story actually may have resembled Aladdin's.
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Wanda, founded in Dalian in 1988, is the epitome of the country's rags-to-riches story.
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If he did run, it would be the culmination of Schultz's classic rags-to-riches story.
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The film, which premieres May 12, focuses on the rags-to-riches tale of King Arthur.
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Rags to riches story, founder of a massive American company -- Starbucks -- and a committed do-gooder.
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Reaching the rags-to-riches success of the American Dream is more nuanced than we know.
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His rags-to-riches story is one that should inspire us, but so far it hasn't.
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Liu frequently talks up his rags-to-riches story of growing up poor in Jiangsu province.
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Paige's Hollywood success story follows the rags-to-riches trope many of us are already familiar with.
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In the mid 1980s, the house was owned by rags-to-riches Cypriot fashion entrepreneur Aristos Constantinou.
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Sukha's own story is a engaging mashup of rags-to-riches immigrant tropes and a restaurateurs' spiel.
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"His rags-to-riches life story is the classic embodiment of the American dream," Mr. Jeffries said.
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In practice, there were probably not all that many rags-to-riches stories in 19th-century Britain.
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"Annie" hit the big screen again in 2014 starring Quvenzhane Wallis as the rags-to-riches orphan.
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Schultz has a rags-to-riches story that most people don't know and would almost certainly be appealing.
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This means whites are four times more likely than blacks to move from rags to riches in America.
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Gabriel "embodied the 'rags to riches' story," Rolling Stone wrote in its tribute to the music star Monday.
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These inspiring rags-to-riches stories go to show that even the direst of situations can turn around.
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He just mumbles that his life story is more complicated than some feel-good rags-to-riches melodrama.
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But Perry's rags to riches tale, while it may be moving, doesn't mean the director is above critique.
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In the early days of the reform period, social mobility increased notably, producing many rags-to-riches stories.
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ET: Exclusive: Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles shares his rags-to-riches story with Martha MacCallum.
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You know, there's rags to riches, there are specific arcs that are common to a lot of our literature.
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He began blogging about his riches-to-rags-to-riches-again story, which has proven to be incredibly popular.
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Not from rags to riches, but from relative obscurity to Instagram stardom, critical acclaim, and retail success — seemingly overnight.
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It's not impossible to imagine he sees the parallels between his rags-to-riches story and the American Dream.
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A rags-to-riches story in line with the greats like Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey—perhaps even greater.
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It's an important touchstone for the genre, and one that Cardi repurposes for her own rags-to-riches story.
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But his rags to riches past and lavish present are not as moving as what promises to lie ahead.
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We celebrate these rags-to-riches stories, and hold them up as markers of the American dream at work.
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Mr. Kilroy's life was often described as a rags-to-riches story, his daughter Trice Kilroy said this week.
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The story presents a typical rags-to-riches scenario, yet over its course, the protagonist develops explicitly selfish qualities.
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Barneys was a particular kind of rags-to-riches success story, one that I'll call the Jewish American Dream.
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The other candidates included Mar Roxas, the old-school Establishment candidate, and Grace Poe, with her rags-to-riches story.
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This rags-to-riches film by F. Gary Gray follows the group N.W.A as it barreled out of Compton, Calif.
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Think of Asian shoe design and the "rags-to-riches" story of Malaysian footwear maestro Jimmy Choo comes to mind.
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The "American Dream" is itself a meritocratic notion of rising from rags to riches on hard work and talent alone.
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Football has plenty of rags-to-riches stars, but those who grow up in poor places face the greatest obstacles.
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Vivian's whiteness is an integral part of her narrative, as well as the broader rags-to-riches story she represents.
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Rowling said it in recounting her own-rags-to-riches journey during a commencement address at Harvard University in 2008.
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Mokhtar, in spite of his rise from rags to riches, is not really character, protagonist, or subject in Eggers's book.
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Spencer leads an excellent cast — including Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo and Blair Underwood — in this lively rags-to-riches story.
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Maybe it's because my mother was an immigrant, or because my father went from rags to riches, Horatio Alger-style.
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For my parents, the story was the uplifting rags-to-riches narrative of the immigrant or refugee who finds success.
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Lawrence: "Went from making tuna sandwiches to making the news" is a rags-to-riches analogy that I can fully conceptualize.
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Then, we'd shove it back into the VCR and settle down to watch Cindy's rags-to riches-transformation all over again.
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These rags-to-riches stories come from some of the most unsuspecting companies, including General Motors, AMD, Pandora, and General Electric.
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" Always proud of his father, Douglas took a moment to reflect on what he called Kirk's "incredible rags to riches story.
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" He also starred in "What Now, Catherine Curtis?" alongside Lucille Ball as well as the TV musical sitcom "Rags to Riches.
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While Scott's is not a complete rags-to-riches story, it's got quite an aspirational American dream-chasing ring to it.
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Mr. Weah, who was born in Clara Town, a Monrovia slum, reminded a stadium crowd of his rags-to-riches story.
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The second season of "Snowfall" wraps up on FX. And "Straight Outta Compton" tells a gangster rap rags-to-riches tale.
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The title of a new documentary about Mr. Avildsen tips its hat to his reputation for telling rags-to-riches tales.
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Or maybe, most simply, it's a rags-to-riches tale about a country kid who becomes famous in the big city.
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In a conservative sitcom this would be a rags-to-riches story, his intelligence elevating the family to a prosperous future.
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Steve Harvey's life is a rags-to-riches tale – but there's no fairy godmother or anonymous benefactor, just integrity, ingenuity and success.
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Multimillionaire Robert Herjavec's story, that of an immigrant arriving in North America with just $20, is a perfect rags-to-riches tale.
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Though Cardi's life is very much a rags-to-riches story, she said she's not caught up in the hype of fame.
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U.T.W.," Jay-Z flaunts his rags-to-riches story: "After that government cheese, we eating steak/After the projects, we on estates.
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When rappers brag about going from rags to riches, they might throw in a line about buying out the luxury retailer Barneys.
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She's reportedly a mixed-breed pup who was rescued from a shelter in Tennessee -- so, a true Hollywood rags to riches story.
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While it is a seductive narrative, one of those rags-to-riches journeys none of us can resist, it's only partly true.
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Beyond her rags-to-riches tale, the remarkable thing about C.J. Walker is the likelihood that people have never heard of her.
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Many politicians would treat such a rags-to-riches tale as a parable about entrepreneurship, but for him it is more complicated.
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The 19th century brimmed with gurus ready to guide you to other dimensions and prophets of the path from rags to riches.
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Any rags to riches story worth its salt has a moment when a downtrodden hero gets to celebrate her awesome new life.
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The former cleaning woman has written a rags-to-riches story that's long on rags before finally offering a hint of riches.
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Victims are often lured to remote rural areas, where they live in closed communities and are indoctrinated with rags-to-riches tales.
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It is simply the nature of the sport to generate a steady stream of rags-to-riches tales like that of Mr Foles.
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Despite his new surroundings, the rags-to-riches Lord of the Manor is determined to remember his past and help the less fortunate.
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It has brotherhood, it has breakup to makeup, it has rags to riches, it has freedom of speech, police brutality, AIDS and HIV.
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"I went from rags to riches, but it wasn't luck," Stearns says in an exclusive clip of the show provided to Business Insider.
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"I went from rags to riches, but it wasn't luck," Stearns says in an exclusive clip of the show provided to Business Insider.
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From rags to riches, these seven had some of the greatest comebacks following bankruptcy filings, according to research by financial services company GoCompare.com.
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The rise of the Kamani family is frequently described by the British tabloids as one of the UK's great "rags to riches" tales.
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I use my clients' dogs, and I always do a rags-to-riches story and feature a rescue animal that can be adopted.
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He also recounts the remarkable rags-to-riches rise of Abraham E. Lefcourt, the prodigious developer who died leaving an estate of $2,500.
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But Brimble's Dickensian rags-to-riches trajectory didn't involve a coming-of-age journey to the big smoke; he hardly left his home studio.
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Rihanna—a Barbadian immigrant whose father was a drug addict—is not often seen through the prism of the male rags-to-riches story.
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Yet the filmmakers' emphasis on drama honors the driven personality of their subject, while tracing a fairly conventional glad-rags-to-riches narrative arc.
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It helped Cruz become one of the franchise's most charismatic and identifiable players, renowned for his rhythmic touchdown dances and rags-to-riches story.
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The rags-to-riches-to-rehab arc of his life feels familiar, but the trailer is as dazzling as John's over-the-top costumes.
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Conor McGregor was an awesome rags to riches story ... before he went nuts and attacked a damn bus -- so says UFC star Justin Gaethje.
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She is what a book marketer I once worked with would delicately call mediagenic, and it makes that rags-to-riches story even more appealing.
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"BASQUIAT" is a deliberate provocation, with a hook that mimics a 1985 interview with the painter, captured in last year's Basquiat: Rags to Riches documentary.
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Fan's rags-to-riches success story has now become a communist morality tale about how the rich need to be shamed and punished for excess.
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Musicians embody the art of storytelling, with rags to riches stories, or tales of perseverance that are tailor-made for the brand experience, he says.
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Beginning in 1868, novelist Horatio Alger authored a string of rags-to-riches bestsellers about poor boys persevering through adversity to attain wealth and success.
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The piece draws from the real-life rags-to-riches tale of Alma Spreckels (1881-1968), a poor laundress who married into a sugar fortune.
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Dolly Parton's rags-to-riches story and complicated past are the focus of a new book, Dolly on Dolly, Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)Tori, a five-year-old black mongrel with an expressive, happy face, has enjoyed a rags-to-riches change of fortune.
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"On one hand, she says, "I feel like my life is a fairy tale and I'm a princess—rags to riches, people trying to sabotage.
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Another rags-to-riches project of his, Louisville, will complete its eighth straight winning season versus Mississippi State in the TaxSlayer Bowl, also on Saturday.
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It's been said that there are only seven plots in existence: the slaying of a monster, the rise from rags to riches and so on.
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"It's gonna be a wild ride," Reid tells him, and what follows is exactly that -- with the occasional feel of a Hollywood rags-to-riches cliché.
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Part of that has to do with the fact that the movie, based loosely on Carey's own rags-to-riches life story, was released on Sept.
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Both have charming cult hits and rags to riches stories (PnB's "Alone" slaps, although Fetty's admittedly a little farther along the riches part of the path).
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The case has drawn intense scrutiny globally and in China, where the tycoon, also known as Liu Qiangdong, is celebrated for his rags-to-riches story.
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He is young, he has a rags-to-riches story, he is part of the culturally diverse nation that waves of immigration have created in America.
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It's a rags-to-riches tale — the book is somewhat famous for featuring Amoruso's time dumpster-diving in her early 20s, before the riches set in.
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Not only has Robert Pattinson been mentioned as a potential lead, Vinnie Jones is apparently set to play Nigel Pearson in the rags-to-riches biopic.
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This is rags-to-riches, "Rocky" and the impossible dream for an unglamorous city in the middle of England best known for having buried Richard III.
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Although she is best known for her quirky handbags, Spade was also remembered in the fashion industry for her business model and rags-to-riches origins.
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Even in the archetypal rags-to-riches story, Horatio Alger's novel "Ragged Dick" (1868), no riches are actually obtained — only the chance to work toward riches.
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He grew up poor and learned English by giving free tours to foreign tourists, embodying a rags-to-riches tale that mirrors the country's economic rise.
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The GQ story is told mostly from Samarin's perspective, and the film is poised to be a ripped-from-the-headlines rags-to-riches story gone awry.
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The one that really upset me, actually, was James Corden's book, because it was a fantastic book of rags to riches with no mention of the riches.
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But over the last 219 years, Soros has gone from a rags-to-riches immigrant investor and political donor to enemy number one of the far right.
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Up until now, America's story has been some version of the rags-to-riches story, the lone individual who rises from the bottom through pluck and work.
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Martin famously launched into his series with the desire to avoid rags-to-riches clichés, but rather created elite powerful families and slammed them into internecine conflict.
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So evidence of good character -- a hard luck story, a rags-to-riches story, charitable acts -- usually needs to be sneaked in through background questions to witnesses.
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These surprising rags to riches stories will show you exactly how one can go from humble origins to Forbes' list of the richest people in the world.
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To the north are the Yuz Museum and the Long Museum, owned by entrepreneur Budi Tek and rags-to-riches collectors Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, respectively.
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Americans may be raised on "Horatio Alger" tales of rags to riches, but in reality those who manage to break into the elite are few and far between.
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However, it forcefully established Basquiat's rags to riches trajectory (or as BBC's recent 2018 documentary title updates with "Rage to Riches"), from enfant terrible to the cataclysmic martyr.
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At the heart of this democratic leadership was the "American dream": the proverbial opportunity for all citizens and immigrants to work their way up from rags to riches.
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Even if we can sense the film's inevitable rags-to-riches-to-humiliation narrative kicking into gear, War Dogs keeps us distracted thanks to its dramatically fertile milieu.
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Like the hugely successful Queen movie "Bohemian Rhapsody", it is a rags-to-riches tale of flamboyant showbiz glory and the perils of a rock 'n' roll lifestyle.
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The American dream of going from rags to riches appears more achievable in developing Asia than in America itself, which seems ever more in thrall to vested interests.
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It will be England, the mother country of soccer, against little Iceland, which has almost become a cliché with its rags-to-riches romance at this year's tournament.
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Born into poverty in south London to a deadbeat dad and a mentally ill mother, Charlie Chaplin had all the makings of a rags-to-riches success story.
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His rags-to-riches life story – Forbes puts Son's net worth at over $20 billion – has given him a celebrity status his famed charisma only serves to enhance.
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Mr. Zelensky's critics are not buying into his rags-to-riches tale, however, saying his success is indicative of the entrenched power of wealthy business interests in Ukraine.
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This is one of those inspirational all-American tales of a poor immigrant's son going from rags to riches with good old-fashioned hard work and sheer daring.
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It was easier to believe it was authentic and healthy because it had an exotic name, a founder who embodied rags-to-riches success and lots of buzz.
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Eliza Doolittle is the star of the original rags-to-riches story, "My Fair Lady," in which she sheds her Cockney accent to help someone win a bet.
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"We're going from rags to riches," said Dr. Judd Moul, a professor of surgery and director of the Duke Prostate Center, who was not involved in either study.
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There is something about that rags-to-riches story and the American Dream that captures people – particularly the older generation, who were raised on American films and American culture.
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First came The Wallcreeper, then Mislaid in 2015, then a whole slew of reviews explaining Zink's charming rags-to-riches tale, while praising her freakish novels in vague terms.
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This national narrative includes the dime-novel, rags-to-riches fairy tales of Horatio Alger, which were intended to uplift Americans struggling to get by after the Civil War.
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Entrepreneurs — especially those with a rags-to-riches story — are often admired for their drive, ambition and strong personality, leaving the next generation with a hard act to follow.
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He's gone from rags to riches, as he recalls on "Racks Blue," and remains deeply affected by the trauma of poverty and the weight of breaking free of it.
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The Russian model, philanthropist and occasional film actress is well-known for her rags to riches life story and for her eight-season, seven-figure contract with Calvin Klein.
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That is until a combination of his own hubris and bad timing (the 2008 financial crisis) causes the Wangs to lose everything — from rags to riches to rags again.
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However, California Chrome, who won $2000 million during his career, came from a humble background and had been the ultimate rags to riches story during his Triple Crown run.
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Pudjiastuti has consistently ranked as Indonesia's most popular minister since taking office in 2014, largely because of her robust approach to tackling illegal fishing and her rags-to-riches story.
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It's hardly a rags to riches story, as Kate's parents are millionaires, but that didn't do much to change their status as "commoners" in the eyes of the royal family.
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Bayou Billionaires, which aired on CMT, focused on the Shreveport-based Dowden family's rags-to-riches story after they discovered their home sat on a large deposit of natural gas.
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Ms. Grimes was largely unknown in 21971 when she was cast as Molly, the rags-to-riches turn-of-the-century socialite-philanthropist who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
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It's a tale of rags to riches, ring to ringside, kicking and punching all the way to the top—but how did this humble and soft-spoken Iranian get there?
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As a man from Little London in Leeds who graduated to the capital and made it his own, there was a rags-to-riches element to his rise as well.
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In Winnipeg, Mr. Nygard is a household name — a local rags-to-riches hero who employed many city residents and had received the key to the city from the mayor.
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It's also about the discovery of the very existence of black holes — a rags-to-riches tale about an implausible idea that gradually came to be accepted as implacable fact.
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Koum himself has an amazing rags-to-riches story— his family emigrated from Ukraine when he was 16 years old, and the family lived briefly on welfare and food stamps.
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If rags to riches is the order of the day, why not use Oprah Winfrey, who endured poverty, sexual assault and teenage pregnancy before developing a multi-billion-dollar entertainment franchise?
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"The tabloids wanted to create this African-American, rags-to-riches Cinderella, if you will, which is so far from reality, you know," says Samantha in the preview for the special.
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Girlboss, which is loosely based on the 2014 New York Times bestseller book by Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso, it the story, of Amoruso's rags-to-riches journey in online retailing.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. To you and I, the average spectator, Quidditch is a fictional sport made up by everyone's fave rags-to-riches Brit author JK Rowling.
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Whether they've gone from rags to riches, learned to let their special powers shine, defeated a wicked witch, or been reimagined by some ambitious illustrator, we do love those Disney princesses.
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In it, Fetty Wap ditches the melodic auto-tune in favour of some straight-up rapping, where he delivers a classic rags-to-riches story about making it against the odds.
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A handful of protesters dominated the proceedings ("Worst Mayor Ever" read one of their signs), and the management pumped loud music, including "Rags to Riches" by Tony Bennett, into the lobby.
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"The story of Madam CJ Walker was popularized, justifiably, from photographs demonstrating the growth of her wealth, albeit short-lived, and the appeal of her 'rags to riches' experience," Whitfield said.
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Her troubles didn't stop there — in 2005, the star received treatment for methadone addiction, as well as Read more:19 of the most inspiring rags-to-riches stories in business21 billionaires who grew up poorThe richest man in Hong Kong is funding an entire college class' tuition for up to 5 years — here's his incredible rags-to-riches life storyThe incredible story of how Chris Pratt got his big break while living in a Scooby-Doo van in Maui
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But she's far less interested in dreaming about her rags-to-riches story than she is in demanding that she shouldn't need a fairytale miracle to move on up in the world.
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Noel Diaz, 59, told the pope of his rags-to-riches story when the pontiff came to the back section of the plane to greet journalists as it was flying to Cuba.
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His was a rags-to-riches story; he drove a cab in New York, plowed his earnings into distressed real estate and then struck it big investing in the Russian energy sector.
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In this particular happiness-measuring project, which MIT Technology Review discusses in detail, the researchers were trying to break down stories into basic narrative categories like rags-to-riches tales or tragedies.
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The investment firm founded by Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, just bought the biggest pub and brewery chain group in the UK — here's his incredible rags-to-riches life story
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While he hails his own economic mobility, rising from being the child of a bartender and a maid to a United States senator, his is not exactly a rags to riches story.
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His visits to the memorials this week, each time lugging a stack of pizzas that reached his chin, follow a remarkable journey even in a city built on rags-to-riches tales.
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Rent it from Amazon Part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, this 2012 documentary reveals how professional athletes have gone from rags to riches and back again in only a few years.
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Perhaps it's because his tale reaches across our most potent national archetypes — the dauntless entrepreneur, the journey from rags to riches, the rise of the immigrant son, the outlaw as Robin Hood.
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Such self-delusory rags-to-riches hopes, the story implied, were the stuffing of American birds — that by some game, gamble, or luck (or all three) we'll all eat turducken for Christmas.
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Titus is an exemplar of Shopify guru-hood, with a very compelling rags-to-riches origin story and a strident but disarming candor that sets her apart from her more Stepford-sounding counterparts.
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Blanco was the quintessential rags-to-riches kingpinBlanco grew up in the slums of Cartagena, Colombia, though she considered Medellén her hometown – she moved there with her mother at the age of 25.
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But when it comes to portraying the frustrations and downsides of a life in the arts, it's actually a lot more accurate than Hollywood rags-to-riches stories like A Star Is Born.
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Jamie Vardy, the rags-to-riches star, scored twice and mis-hit a penalty kick so high that he joked he must have been aiming for the club chairman's helicopter in the sky.
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Huang Rulun, a rags-to-riches Chinese billionaire funding two huge drug rehabilitation centers in the Philippines, has been held up by Duterte as a symbol of the relationship between the two nations.
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But Slack's high-tech roots and rags-to-riches story defy a traditional business secret to its rapid success, one of the most basic tricks in the sales playbook: word-of-mouth marketing.
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Ben Franklin's best-selling "Autobiography" mythologized his rags-to-riches rise from indentured servant to inventor and statesman, and in so doing he further stitched the redemption narrative into the nation's moral fabric.
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"The donut is a simple food made from just a few ingredients," he wrote in his recent autobiography, "The Donut King: The Rags to Riches Story of a Poor Immigrant Who Changed the World".
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Despite this rags-to-riches arc, the new museum is careful neither to appear too smug, nor gloss over more controversial topics, including Brexit, refugee housing and the ugly consequences of rampant consumer consumption.
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By sealing one of the biggest European merger deals of recent years, 2100-year old spectacles tycoon Leonardo Del Vecchio has added another chapter to one of Italy's most legendary rags-to-riches stories.
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Blankenship, known as West Virginia's "king of coal" for his rags-to-riches background and tough approach to business, was also sentenced in U.S. District Court to a year of supervised probation after release.
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Read more: The investment firm founded by Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, just bought the biggest pub and brewery chain group in the UK — here's his incredible rags-to-riches life story
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Blankenship, known as West Virginia's "king of coal" for his rags-to-riches background and tough approach to business, was given the maximum sentence for the misdemeanor conviction by U.S. District Judge Irene Berger.
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The winning trainer, Todd Pletcher, is the undisputed king of racing in New York — and beyond, at the moment — and Tapwrit became his third Belmont Stakes winner, joining Rags to Riches and Palace Malice.
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In March, the polymath artist and musician David Byrne wrote a cover story on a man he admires: the musician and poet Benjamin Clementine, whose rags-to-riches story is the stuff of legend.
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When she won that gold medal the whole country was celebrating not only her rags to riches story but the triumph of Brazil itself in beating the odds to pull off a largely successful Games.
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Instead of a traditional resume, Carson began by highlighting his impoverished upbringing in inner city Detroit and the rags-to-riches success story that he has detailed in books and public appearances in recent years.
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She feels that if we can shift our mindset to accept the notion that the universe provides from a neverending repository, then we can literally transform ourselves from rags to riches, regardless of material wealth.
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And her appeal is not just the literal rags-to-riches career arc; it's how she's been the great unifier, bringing together what would be polarized factions of the country through her music and songwriting.
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"I know what it's like to have absolutely nothing and be homeless and go through the struggle to make it," he says in the new documentary "Good Fortune, " which details his rags-to-riches rise.
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Often called "Superman," Li Ka-shing has an incredible "rags-to-riches" story that saw him go from being impoverished in southern China to building a conglomerate that spans across 50 countries and 323,000 employees.
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So the book is perhaps best regarded as historical fiction and, like many a good novel, it centers on the rags-to-riches ascent of a colorful protagonist — or, in this case, two colorful protagonists.
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Given the rags-to-riches nature of Ally's storyline, it would be easy for the film to soft-pedal the darker aspects of their relationship, but instead, A Star is Born leans into them without reservation.
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His rags-to-riches story was media catnip and far easier for the public to relate to than a tale about a eccentric woman inspired by a long-forgotten economist and countless iterations by people unknown.
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Mariah Carey's loyal fans have done the seemingly impossible by pushing the soundtrack to Glitter, the singer's ill-received 2001 movie based loosely on her own rags-to-riches life story, into the iTunes Top 10.
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The rags-to-riches billionaire built Starbucks from the ground up and his chain has recently made waves on social justice issues, but many are saying they don't want to see him in the Oval Office.
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The rags-to-riches billionaire built Starbucks from the ground up and his chain has recently made waves on social justice issues, but many are saying they don't want to see him in the Oval Office.
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Self-help literature lines the shelves of America's chain bookstores (and the front page of Amazon), and we still love a rags-to-riches story as proof that our lives are, above all else, self-improvable.
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The investment crowns a rags to riches story for Manchester City, which spent much of the 1990s in the doldrums but broke into the big league of world soccer with the help of Middle Eastern cash.
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The investment crowns a rags to riches story for Manchester City, which spent much of the 1990s in the doldrums but broke into the big league of world soccer with the help of Middle Eastern cash.
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Whether you like Donald Trump or you loathe him, it's hard to make the case that he is a rags-to-riches story who overcame the many obstacles thrown in front of him through hard work.
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Robin Chandler Duke, a rags-to-riches grande dame who married an ambassador and became one of America's best known advocates for women by championing reproductive rights and international family planning, died in Charleston, S.C., on Saturday.
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Norman's feature had documented a few price declines over the years ("No rags to riches story for English porcelain," November 21967; "Fall in Chinese ceramics," September 1970), but the truth of its demise is far more complex.
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A female wrestler, gymnast and badminton player captured the public's imagination in the 2016 Rio Olympics, along with the rags-to-riches stories of icons, like boxer Mary Kom, who have inspired other women to take up sport.
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Leyna Gabriele, a lyric coloratura soprano who became a fan-club idol for playing the title role in the first production of the tragic rags-to-riches-to-rags opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe," died on Oct.
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In fact, his rags-to-riches refugee story is included as one of less than three-dozen examples in a new online exhibit on becoming an American at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington.
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Pletcher's onetime horse Gettysburg had done his job well enough to deprive him of another Belmont Stakes to go along with the ones he had earned in 2007 with Rags to Riches and in 2013 with Palace Malice.
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Until very recently, the Facebook CEO wouldn't have seen himself as a villain in a horror novel but rather the hero of a happier genre, a classic American rags-to-riches story in the tradition of Horatio Alger.
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With a killer cameo by Bob Barker and Ben Stiller as a devious, mustachioed, quilt-hawking orderly, the rags-to-riches story of a shitty hockey player turned pro golfer is the cream of the dumb-fun crop.
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Chinese people with American-style aspirations who hope to be rewarded for ability and hard work are frustrated by the continued monopoly of those with connections (though the journey from rags to riches has become harder in America too).
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Popular in part because of his rags-to-riches story, Acuña has shaken off previous setbacks ranging from domestic violence allegations, which he denies, to criticism for putting his children and brother on his party's list of congressional candidates.
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His rise from the poverty of a township in the Eastern Cape province to bring home the cup as captain is a rags-to-riches story many South Africans would love to repeat, as they still grapple with inequalities.
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The incident even sparked a plotline in an episode of the Showtime drama "Billions," where Bobby Axelrod, the rags-to-riches financier, makes a similar move to exact revenge on a blue-blood preppy who snubbed him as a boy.
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The story of Marisa, a maid and single mother hoping to realize her dreams of a management position at The Beresford Hotel where she cleans rooms, unfolded following the same rags-to-riches recipe as Cinderella and Pretty Woman before it.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rags-to-riches coal baron Nathan Tinkler, who rode the mining boom to become Australia's youngest billionaire before losing it all when coal prices collapsed, has been declared legally bankrupt after failing to pay off a private jet.
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Lyons' rags-to-riches story was often repeated: Growing up gawky with a genetic skin and teeth disorder that propelled her love of fashion, she joined the company on the ground floor as an assistant designer straight out of college.
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Weah, who starred for top European clubs such as AC Milan and Paris Saint Germain in the 1990s, has parlayed his rags-to-riches biography into political success but faces criticism that he lacks the experience and knowledge for the job.
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For a game that is so often defined by finely manicured suburban lawns, Dempsey's rise to international stardom from a dusty trailer park in Nacogdoches, Texas stood out as one of the rare rags-to-riches stories in American soccer.
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CAPE TOWN/YOKOHAMA (Reuters) - Siya Kolisi completed his rags-to-riches journey from a dusty, poverty-stricken township on the eastern coast of South Africa to World Cup-winning captain on Saturday when he led the Springboks to victory over England.
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It's a classic story of rags to riches—rising from junior video coordinator to head coach in about 13 years—and it may now be unlikely to ever happen again, as computers take over the position that gave Spoelstra his start.
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But Chetty started his lecture with a big-picture analysis of the state of the American dream, the classic rags-to-riches story in which someone born poor rises to the highest levels of society by dint of talent and gumption.
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The story, a semi-autobiographical rags-to-riches tale, is a classic articulation of the American Dream, though Mr. Berry was savvy enough to change the original lyric about a "colored boy" to "country boy" for a shot at radio play.
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The real Whittington, and the folkloric one, were both Lord Mayor of London in the 15th century — but it's unknown if Sir Richard actually had a cat, or if its mousing abilities earned him enough wealth to go from rags to riches.
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Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, announced in March his retirement as chairman of CK Hutchison and real estate arm CK Asset, bringing to a close a rags-to-riches story that made him a hero in the freewheeling capitalist hub.
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SYDNEY, March 3 (Reuters) - Rags-to-riches coal mining baron Nathan Tinkler, who rode the mining boom to become Australia's youngest billionaire before losing it all when coal prices collapsed, has been declared legally bankrupt after failing to pay off a private jet.
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Those choices have far less to do with Mokhtar or coffee or Yemen than with Eggers's own approach to his story—his attempt to show a world of daring and enterprise, in which Americans rise from rags to riches through sheer chutzpah.
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"Never in my wildest dreams did I think that 10 years later I would do [$100 million] in deals over spotty Wi-Fi while on safari in South Africa like I did last week," Serhant says of his rags-to-riches career arc.
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As Business Insider's Alex Heath and Madeline Stone previously reported, Koum's rise to wealth in Silicon Valley is something of a rags-to-riches story: He grew up without water in Soviet-era Ukraine and emigrated to the US at age 16.
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While Hong Kong's adoration of the billionaire and his rags-to-riches story has waned somewhat in recent years, he is still stepping aside from one of Asia's most outward-looking empires, spanning more than 50 countries and 323,000 employees at last count.
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While Messi's rags to riches story is the stuff that sports dreams are made of, it's impossible for the world's best teams to get a window into all of the world's best players, thanks to the game's incredibly low barrier to entry.
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Those tend to be most engaging when charting rags-to-riches stories associated with country stars from Johnny Cash to Elvis Presley -- like Willie Nelson, after receiving his first royalty check, planting a kiss on the singer who made his song a hit.
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I love a rags-to-riches story — which would explain my affinity for many things, like Fixer Upper and trap music — and I absorbed every iteration of Cinderella available to me, including Cinderella on Ice and the 1965 Rodgers and Hammerstein televised musical version.
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There's the aptly named Judy the Beauty, the Eclipse Champion sprinter; Take Charge Lady, the dam of the 2013 champion 3-year-old Will Take Charge; and Rags to Riches, who in 2007 became the first filly since 1905 to win the Belmont Stakes.
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" Rafael Lima, a professor at the University of Miami, pointed to the story of "a rags-to-riches family in which the kid, the heir of this empire, now can be the owner of this baseball team, which in Cuba is a huge symbol.
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Meanwhile, hip-hop as an industry continues to develop its own exclusionary economics, luring aspiring rappers with its well-worn rags-to-riches narrative only for agents to charge them to play gigs and established MCs to rip them off for paid guest verses.
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In many ways, the intense rags-to-riches role resembles Hardy's earlier turn as Heathcliff in a 2009 remake of "Wuthering Heights," with a touch of the bad guy he played in another miniseries, "Oliver Twist," as he sashays around London in top hat and cape.
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To understand how Hollywood views women, look no further than Pretty Woman, a rags-to-riches story about a sex worker whose blurring of the lines between her profession and her personal life, fundamentally shaped our understanding of the elements that make up a successful romantic comedy.
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The British actress, 27, who famously played the rags-to-riches princess in the 2015 Disney film Cinderella and Lady Rose Aldridge in Downton Abbey, scored a new gig as the face of British label's new My Burberry Black fragrance and poses topless for the campaign.
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We tried out six shades in total: Pleasure Principle (a translucent hue with violet shimmer), Rags To Riches (a sheer plum), Moth To Flame (a nude beige with hints of orange), Comet Blue (a violet-blue), Funtabulous (a subtle fuchsia), and Boys Go Crazy (a deep burgundy).
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It was Coppola's Godfather gamble on a then-unknown Pacino that made of the upstart Italian actor a leading man, but it was Brian De Palma's rags-to-riches-to-rubble story of a Mariel boatlift refugee who becomes a cocaine kingpin that made him a legend.
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They broadcast their own celebration from the home of Jamie Vardy, their rags-to-riches goal scorer, as the Premier League title was handed to them by an implosion of Tottenham Hotspur in a brutish match down in London at Chelsea that was drawn 2-2.
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But evidence at Guzman's trial suggested his decision to stay quiet at the defense table was against his nature: Cooperating witnesses told jurors he was a fan of his own rags-to-riches narco story, always eager to find an author or screenwriter to tell it.
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Considering the scandal prompted by the picture, Ms. Quéniaux's rags-to-riches odyssey is a neat twist appreciated both by the historian who made the discovery, Claude Schopp, and by Sylvie Aubenas, an archivist and historian at France's National Library, who backs Mr. Schopp's unexpected finding.
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In the upcoming third remake of A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper and Stefani Germanotta will put a modern, genre-spanning spin on the 1937 rags-to-riches love story — and PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly have an exclusive look at the movie, which hits theaters May 18, 2018.
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Some turn it on its head: although rags-to-riches narratives are widespread in basketball, the data show that growing up in poverty actually reduces a boy's chances of making the National Basketball Association—perhaps because poor children are less likely to grow tall enough to play in it.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, held his last meeting with shareholders on Thursday and handed to his eldest son the keys to his $35.3 billion empire, bringing to a close a rags-to-riches story that made him an icon in the financial hub.
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A rags to riches Cuban or Venezuelan—who would not get time of day at this exclusive club—got in, because once you're a coke kingpin, once you have that kind of money, all sorts of women would sleep with you, all sorts of celebs would party with you.
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Yet the filmmakers' emphasis on drama honors the driven personality of their subject, while tracing a fairly conventional glad-rags-to-riches narrative arc: The sweet, blue-collar lad from London's East End who catapulted from using fabric bought with his dole money to designing for Givenchy and Gucci.
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There is no other context, no grainy black-and-white photos, no inspiring rags-to-riches tale of a scrappy young woman who took her entrepreneurial drive and passion for making people feel beautiful and turned it into a booming cosmetics business that she later sold for a million dollars.
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The rags-to-riches story of Vivian Ward falling in love with wealthy businessman Edward Lewis hits the Big Apple in August with Samantha Barks stepping into the vinyl boots of Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts while Andy Karl suits up to play the wealthy businessman previously portrayed by Richard Gere.
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The rags-to-riches-to-near-ruin tale of its founder is industry lore: Carl N. Karcher invested $325 in a hot dog cart in Southern California in 1941 and turned it into a burger powerhouse in the West before facing federal insider trading accusations and feuding with his board.
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It is not uncommon to hear rags-to-riches stories, such as that of B. R. Shetty, who tells of arriving in the Emirates, in 1973, as a young pharmacist with "a mere couple of dollars," and is now the billionaire owner of one of the largest Emirati health-care firms.
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Simultaneously a romance, a tragedy, and a rags-to-riches story with a magnetic young woman at its center, A Star is Born follows an essential arc that has, thus far, stayed the same: An aging male celebrity, hamstrung by his addictions, meets a talented, younger woman with whom he is instantly smitten.
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Songs like this and the aforementioned "Mulher no Poder" (literally, "Women in Power") aren't too different from something like "Bodak Yellow" in terms of equivocating rags-to-riches narratives with marginalized female empowerment, and these girl-power anthems do indeed have a strong tradition in funk, even when it's adapted by non-Brazilians.
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It's not hard to see why: The "founded in a garage" story is a cliche among tech company origin stories, the crucial accessory in a rags-to-riches narrative where the intelligent, starry-eyed entrepreneur pulls himself up by the bootstraps and eventually upgrades to multi-billion dollar facilities and grandiose mansions.
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The rags-to-riches plot is an intentionally improbable picaresque featuring all the glorious elements of great operas of the era: love at first sight, disguise, intrigue, grief, betrayal, secrets, scheming aristocrats, a besotted tenor, dramatic escapes, grand settings, fabulous costumes, murder, fallen women, sacrifice — the follies of humans at the mercy of Fate.
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When his signature chant comes in at the beginning of "Let Me See," it preps you for the money-making hook that underscores the rags-to-riches video concept which follows Kevin Gates, Lil Skies, and Juicy J—or Juicy Jobs as he calls himself here—through the rise and fall of their tech startups.
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So it should come as no surprise that their years-in-the-making documentary, L27: Pretend We're Dead, doesn't follow the typical "rags to riches to rags" story arch, nor does it infer that its very existence might be the reason the 27s vets are rocking together again after nearly 27 years of estrangement.
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Her story is less rags-to-riches than it is a butterfly getting its wings: Her obsession with becoming a singer wasn't enough to keep her from dropping out of music school, but it gave her the nerve to create her own music — teaching herself how to play the keyboard and recording her demos on GarageBand.
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Publicly, the leagues contend that their businesses are fundamentally sound and that any declines in ratings have been caused by temporary factors, like the raucous presidential campaign season in the United States and the lack of a compelling story line in the Premier League, which last season got a jolt from Leicester City, the ultimate rags-to-riches champion.
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Though not quite a tale of rags to riches, the lifestyle she leads as the third wife of the billionaire businessman is a far cry from her roots in Slovenia, a tiny former Yugoslav republic of 2 million people comparable in size to New Jersey and nestled below the Julian Alps between Italy, Croatia, Austria and Hungary.
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But of course, "Full Disclosure" is more than just a rags to riches story -- because once it hits the bookshelves, the book could do serious damage to the Trump presidency, or at the very least, remind the American public about the President's potential involvement in a campaign finance scandal in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
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They found that there were six main ones:Fall-rise-fall, like Oedipus RexRise and then a fall, like what happens to most villainsFall and then a rise, like what happens to most superheroesSteady fall, like in Romeo and JulietSteady rise, like in a rags-to-riches storyRise-fall-rise, like in CinderellaWithin these general shapes, of course, there were many mini emotional arcs.
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To highlight the rags-to-riches spirit of McGregor's rapid rise to fame (from dreamer on the dole to world champion in three short years), the World published a photo of McGregor's brand-new sprawling estate, called Ladycastle, located on the grounds of the K Club golfing complex in County Kildare, and four of McGregor's new luxury cars, part of a fleet that at that time was up to eight.
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I could easily describe it as a rags-to-riches story (poor, brilliant football star from a dysfunctional family in Texas is recruited to play football at Yale, opening the door to a lifetime of opportunities), yet it turns the genre on its head to ask: Why do we place so much value in building come-from-nothing narratives for young black people, and how does one cope with being shaped in this narrative?
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