When you don't have housing, you don't have any bootstraps.
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Then I pick myself up by my bootstraps and get going.
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The bootstraps, sport tells us, are right there for the taking.
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Are they screaming at their kids about bootstraps and elbow grease?
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That's a tricky stance to take if you believe in bootstraps.
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It's impossible, and yet the bootstraps narrative drives out good policy.
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You're going to pull up yourself by your own bootstraps. Yeah.
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"Strap yourself up by your bootstraps!" seems to be the main theme.
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That guy should really learn to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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It wasn't that I had to pull myself up by my bootstraps.
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His great takeaway from life in America's underclass is: Pull up those bootstraps.
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The phrase "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" was originally meant sarcastically.
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People needed to learn how to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
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It's a kind of show where you need to hold onto your bootstraps.
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So, it's all up to us to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps?
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You gotta be to afford the bootstraps before you can pull yourself up.
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Puerto Rico just needs the tools to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps.
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Christine gave me that opportunity, you know, to lift myself up from the bootstraps.
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A lawyer and former judge, she has an up-from-the-bootstraps personal story.
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The problem is that this bootstraps narrative drives out good policy in three ways.
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American children need fewer wagging fingers or homilies about bootstraps, and more helping hands.
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There's nothing more irresistible than a bootstraps animal, overcoming crisis -– in perfectly pixillated pictures.
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So that you feel confident enough that you can pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.
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"It's the same old bootstraps story, an American dream artfully told, skillfully sold," she wrote.
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"I've always been a 'pick yourself up by your bootstraps' kind of gal," she said.
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For others he is a role model for young black Britons of bootstraps-up achievement.
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One, is our strong individualistic culture and value of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Bill Clinton pulled himself up by his bootstraps and was a young, exciting governor. Technocrat.
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Conservatives love "just nature" arguments about money, of course: social Darwinism, bootstraps, and all that bullshit.
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We're supposed to be left to our own devices then pull ourselves up from our bootstraps.
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Paradoxically, the most prominent heir to Brown's up-by-the-bootstraps feminism may be Sheryl Sandberg.
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"We just have to hope and, like they say, pick yourself up by your bootstraps," said Mauro.
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In fact, the actor's rise speaks to the conservative American ideal: pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
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"We're not going to be able to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps," she told me.
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It is predicated on the ultimate self-reliance lie — the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" story.
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Was he now blaming the disenfranchised for their circumstances, cosigning a pull-yourself-up-from-your-bootstraps mentality?
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Logic is an unrepentant optimist, an up-by-his-bootstraps teacher's pet who espouses the gospel of positivity.
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It's an up-by-the-bootstraps story that informs his views on education, income inequality, taxes and more.
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The party's up-by-your-bootstraps ethos appealed to her, she's anti-abortion and she hates paying taxes.
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Most poor families I knew as a kid avoided food stamps; they believed in bootstraps, not getting help.
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Third, the bootstraps narrative implies that everyone can pull a Ben Carson (Carson himself falls for this fallacy).
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These can be challenges, but they can be addressed to some extent — but not by sermons about bootstraps.
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You either pick yourself up by the bootstraps and you move on and become stronger from your experiences.
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My story is extraordinary, and is not a validation of the ethos of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps.
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That bootstraps mentality is an attitude in line with historic Asian American conservatism, especially that of conservative Chinese Americans.
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Once he pulls himself out of the womb by his bootstraps, the imagined economic individual wants one thing: more.
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Small business owners, with a do-it-yourself, boots-to-bootstraps attitude generally skew right on the political spectrum.
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Carson has revisited debate about an American bootstraps mentality and what we collectively consider to be the deserving poor.
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He no longer believes the American story that everyone should be able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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But her branding as the candidate with "a plan for that" eclipsed her own up-by-the-bootstraps biography.
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"What that means is dominant narratives like bootstraps and upward mobility and the American Dream… stop resonating," Smucker said.
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You often hear talk about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and that college admission is based on merit.
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Unfortunately for startups and small businesses, marketing can be expensive, especially when you're just pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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My father quickly learned that no amount of pulling on his bootstraps would get his disabled child health care coverage.
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Mr. Trump's business career towered over the Republican National Convention in Cleveland as a success story, if without the bootstraps.
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Yet where Vance's book espouses a self-congratulatory bootstraps ideology, Louis offers damning realism in the service of structural critique.
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Her by-the-bootstraps story and stylish, of-the-moment image seem to embody the lifestyle her company was selling.
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I have to admit, some of your ideas in the book reminded me of Ben Carson's God-and-bootstraps narrative.
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The myth of the land of opportunity where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps is just that -- a myth.
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"I could either mope and pout or I could pick myself up by the bootstraps and keep marching on," he recalls.
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Nor is there a pick-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps success story that can inspire others to be successful like her.
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For centuries, as a country we have come to celebrate self-reliance, a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" national identity.
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Self-made millionaire Wayne "Butch" Gilliam pulled himself up by his bootstraps, and he thinks other entrepreneurs should do the same.
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He's determined that Cory won't play football, but will instead get a job and pull himself up by his own bootstraps.
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But Trump didn't call for black people to stop lazing around and use a little more elbow grease on those bootstraps.
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If you catch it from the right angle, a kid picking himself up by his bootstraps can look like a suicide.
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Judge Thomas was an apostle of individualist self-help — blacks could advance only by pulling themselves up from their own bootstraps.
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FIRE's bootstraps outlook, however, isn't necessarily accessible to the vast majority of Americans who work not to buy, but to survive.
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Since the 28503s, policymakers have been selling the "bootstraps" myth that if poor people go to work, they can escape poverty.
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Wagner went from finding and videotaping future NBA stars in a gonzo, by-the-bootstraps manner to working for the NBA itself.
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We are calling this approach "bootstrapping" because of the old saying that you have to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
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The myth that the lone hero succeeded because they managed to pull themselves up by the bootstraps is just that — a myth.
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Nixon was an intellectually gifted, up-from-the-bootstraps product of a hardscrabble childhood, not a spoiled and ignorant child of privilege.
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We are a nation of strivers who can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps with the right combination of grit and determination.
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Opinion Columnist Back in the 1800s, the expression "pull oneself up by the bootstraps" meant the opposite of what it does now.
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They're "makers" who pull the rest of us "takers" up by our bootstraps, while creating jobs, disrupting industries and changing the world.
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In a country built on the premise of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, individuals are often expected to just pull themselves together.
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They also believe that cowboy boots are a legitimate fashion choice and that bootstraps are tools by which people should pull themselves up.
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My father also suffered from intermittent deep depression, and like Anthony, was part of a 'pull up your bootstraps and march on' generation.
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His biography does not have any of the bootstraps appeal of a Lyndon Johnson, or even Mr. Cruz, the son of immigrant parents.
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My father also suffered from intermittent deep depression, and like Anthony, was part of a &apospull up your bootstraps and march on&apos generation.
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Here's the son of an immigrant sugarcane cutter who literally pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become mayor and own a successful business.
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The network largely opted to avoid specifics, instead flattening the swimmer's turbulent history into generalized anecdotes about him pulling himself up by his bootstraps.
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" He adds, "They believe [high school] is their chance at breaking the cycle of poverty, and they're really bringing themselves up by their bootstraps.
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But at it's core, DALRAT body slams the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" narrative by honing in on the realities of generational poverty.
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" Holzhauer added, "They believe [high school] is their chance at breaking the cycle of poverty, and they're really bringing themselves up by their bootstraps.
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What the country needs, then, is the same approach that made him rich: to pull itself up by the bootstraps, and tighten its belt.
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Sometimes you've just got to pick yourself up by your bootstraps, get back on your hoverboard, and give crossing that English Channel another go.
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C, Greensboro We can't be a country that requires every man to pull himself up by his bootstraps and then snatch his boots away.
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Jindal and Marco Rubio both have inspiring up-from-the-bootstraps immigrant stories, but GOP voters seem to prefer the white son born into wealth.
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Speaking of bootstraps, for decades — and certainly since 9/11 — teams and leagues haven't "stuck to sports" but have rather camouflaged themselves in hawkish propaganda.
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That became the narrative of Clarence Thomas's hearing—how he came up by his own bootstraps, whereas Kavanaugh was portrayed as an advocate for women.
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"We have this culture of 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps,'" says Annie Robinson, a wellness program facilitator at New York University School of Medicine.
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Starting to sell gadgets under their own brands might offer these firms far higher profit margins, allowing them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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The sort of "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!" mentality is actually quite insidious, and it helps undermine any kind of class identity in America.
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While Brooke and I shared beers, I admired his arcade game, dartboard, artfully hung string lights, and general up-by-the-bootstraps can-do attitude.
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Specifically, it's just an empathetic twist on the conservative bootstraps narrative: The plights that get sympathy are those of the abundantly deserving and unambiguously screwed.
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Even though the American dream is pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, we've made ample room in it for people whose boots are handed down.
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The often-touted "bootstraps" success model is a deception, a useful mechanism to promote division amongst women, minorities and immigrants who still struggle for equality.
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It seems hypocritical to demand that the poorest Americans pull themselves up by their bootstraps while covering the business risk of the nation's wealthiest agribusinesses.
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My experience has taught me that pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is a myth: Achieving social mobility requires far more than will and ability.
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But while Carson's bootstraps conservatism and messianic gibberish galvanized evangelical voters for a while, Republicans weren't really looking for good and honest this election cycle.
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And while the conservative narrative frequently speaks to "pulling oneself by the bootstraps," Ocasio-Cortez and her family have received no praise for embodying that narrative.
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Using that intangible notion of motivation, desire and a never-give-up kind of attitude, we can raise ourselves by our bootstraps and reach new heights.
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It is a concrete illustration of how tiny Uruguay, pulling itself up by its bootstraps, has morphed into one of the most progressive nations on earth.
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Hers is plainly the sort of up-by-the-bootstraps immigrant story that leaves little patience for special pleading: her family's mantra was "Deal with it".
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The informal rally harked back to his days as an up-by-the-bootstraps populist and Islamist leader who often spoke from the tops of buses.
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He endeared himself particularly to poorer Mexicans in part because they identified with his impoverished early life and his up-by-the-bootstraps rise to fame.
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They are designed to codify the myth of the self-sufficient pioneers, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and living off the fat of the land.
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But had she focused on her up-by-the-bootstraps biography, who's to say she wouldn't have been slammed as inauthentic or as trying too hard?
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In some places hereditary members of the elite boast about their lineage, but in America they pretend that they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps.
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We are taught that no matter what stands in our way, the triumphant overcome it in pursuit of a goal, picking ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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SENATOR Marco Rubio of Florida, a young Cuban-American with a stirring, up-by-the-bootstraps life-story, was once called the future of the Republican Party.
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He's got a classic up by the bootstraps story that ends with him as VP at Coca-Cola, VP at Texaco, and managing director at Bain Capital.
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The American dream is that an individual can work hard ("pull themselves up by their bootstraps"), be recognized as valuable, and earn rewards or status in exchange.
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And believe me this myth about pulling up your bootstraps and you know I'm going to make it, that's fine for ninety ninety-five percent of the population.
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Bootstraps: Mr. Gyimah grew up in a poorer section of Toronto, where his father is a truck driver and his mother is a clerk for a health company.
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But the truth is, drill sergeant John Wayne "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" self-talk narrator guy is not actually a very good source of genuine motivation.
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But, my dad — up until recently — had a pretty 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' mentality that seemed to contradict all the assistance, help, and compassion we received.
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In this sense, his remarks invoke rhetoric that seeks to place the blame on poor black people for their conditions who must pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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Our elevation of business over all other disciplines is pure American hoodoo — a bubbling witches' brew of bootstraps and sparrows and rags and riches and invisible-finger bones.
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As a retired soldier, I know that if any person or nation killed that many Americans, we would pull up our bootstraps and go to war with them.
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But lest I fall into the same trap of all those who idealize bootstraps, the "new better off" is not solely about making brave individual choices, but structural transformation.
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The physicists employed a strategy known as the bootstrap, a term derived from the phrase "pick yourself up by your own bootstraps" (instead of pushing off of the ground).
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I know I should have invested in a sturdy pair of those bootstraps people who speak at graduation ceremonies are always talking about, but what does that even mean?
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When I worried to other higher-ed vocation types online about this, some chided me for underestimating the capacity of the oppressed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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While grime can be powered by anti-establishment fury, its M.C. battles and up-from-the-bootstraps record labels also foster community and create scaffolding for black British expression.
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Together they are the well-groomed horsemen of the apocalypse for any kind of social contract, essentially a "pull yourself up by your organic patent leather bootstraps" approach to health.
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His students borrow heavily to pay for their studies in hope of replicating Mr. Barney's up-by-the-bootstraps success, but often find themselves dropping out and burdened with loans.
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"Now it's, 'Let's take a moment to digest,' but also, 'Let's quickly pull ourselves up by our bootstraps because we need to continue to do our jobs,'" the official added.
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InSite "countered this whole idea that if we're just hard on people, they'll hit rock bottom and they'll pick themselves up by the bootstraps and they'll recover," Ms. Evans said.
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Economically, we can see it in the ideology of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps celebrated in everything from the 19th-century novels of Horatio Alger to GOP talking points.
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Perhaps they say, hey, maybe I don't have a nice condo and six-figure job SOLELY because I pulled myself up by my bootstraps as a completely self-made man.
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Jesus was a humble carpenter from Nazareth who miraculously fed 5,000 people but never humiliated them with condescending lectures about God favoring those who pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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" Okung whole-heartedly disagrees, calling the American Dream — the idea that anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make it big — "one of the greatest lies ever told.
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Here's the "model minority" spin on my family's story: My parents are the scrappy immigrants who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, came here legally, and played by the rules.
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The conservative ethos of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, asserting patriarchy and male dominance, all of these kinds of traditional gender values, some black men find [them] very appealing.
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Noting she is the youngest congresswoman in history, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez made explicit the fact that her success is not a story of bootstraps but of a web of support.
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This family that represented the kind of immigrant-made-good, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps American success story became overwrought with despondency, despair, and depression in two short decades.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dismissed the idea of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" this week, arguing nobody succeeds without help or support, and many Americans face an uneven playing field.
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So, it takes great pains to turn a dehumanized monolith like "general homelessness" into an honest story even the most "pull yourself up by your bootstraps"-obsessed viewer can empathize with.
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On one level, the film highlights a perversion of the American entrepreneurial spirit, showing how two nobodies pulled themselves up by their bootstraps to help kill people halfway across the globe.
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When he ran for president during the 2016 primary, Carson spoke frequently about his rise from abject poverty and his prescription for an up-by-the-bootstraps approach to social progress.
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"The regulations have made it very difficult for many small businesses to pull themselves up from the bootstraps," says Jeffrey J. Antonelli, a Chicago lawyer whose legal practice focuses on drones.
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After a conversation with a fellow trucker who's "caught in the amber of class, education and diminished expectations," Murphy offers a sharp diversion from the expected up-by-the-bootstraps allegories.
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"The fact that we have gathered ourselves up by our bootstraps and created a community radio station is in direct response to the ownership concentration of large media companies," she said.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is only big on Twitter and not "successful in real life" — proving once again conservatives only like the "pull yourself by the bootstraps" narrative as long as it's theoretical.
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Carson is convinced that pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is the key to success, not what he deems government handouts, even though he and his mother once benefited from government help.
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Since it is hard to load software (including an operating system) without already running software, the clever fixes to this problem were seen as akin to "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps".
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How easy it would have been for him to turn this single fact into proof that he pulled himself up by his own bootstraps, that America is the land of equal opportunity.
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It argues that the unceasing pursuit of fame and fortune has "become the new American dream" (it's a favorite phrase), replacing the Horatio Alger allegory of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps.
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The story of America — that anybody can be what they want to be, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you can do it, anybody can live the American dream — is that true?
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Proponents use the language of "workfare" — the idea that people must lift themselves out of poverty by their bootstraps — to justify the very cuts that undermine the ability of people to work.
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Portland neighborhoods won't just have to pull ourselves up by bootstraps, but climb our way out of their city's once-accommodating infrastructure, now fallen around us like the bars of a cage.
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It's arguably that, not the so-called bootstraps narrative, that makes him so appealing to millions who find that they, too, have been blocked from the societal ladder we've been taught to climb.
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"The design standard bootstraps from the Cal Poly CubeSat standard and is extensible, allowing major customization," wrote Jekan Thanga, the ASU assistant professor who heads up the project, in an email to TechCrunch.
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But the articles are also an example of a deep strain of American thinking, which posits that we're just a proper budget and a pair of bootstraps away from saving ourselves from poverty.
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They diminish the hard work done by people in more challenging circumstances and add to the myth that if you just work hard enough, you can pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
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The western-inspired film was shot on the periphery of Brazil's Belo Horizonte and lovingly depicts a community where survival depends on pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and relying on your wits.
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That "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" narrative — the one that says you can be anything you want, and then if you're not, it's all your fault — that makes optimism the better choice.
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" James Gleick on Robert Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps": "He had to imagine what it's like for Bob #2—who's being told by Bob #3 that they've met before—to think, 'Well, wait a second.
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You know the story: Lorelai runs away from her cushy life to start anew in a quirky Connecticut town where she pulls herself up by her bootstraps and eventually starts her own successful business.
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Ibrahimovic may have since made a habit of pulling his sides to league wins by their bootstraps, but that year his form fell away badly and he managed just one goal after mid-December.
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And it's possible to believe, sincerely and dispassionately, that people can best address their economic and social problems by "pulling themselves up by the bootstraps," buckling down and working hard to escape from poverty.
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It's about "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps," said Caitlyn Collins, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose book, "Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving," comes out in February.
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Well, there's a great Martin Luther King quote, you know, people say pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, forgetting that a lot of people don't have shoes, don't have boots to start with.
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Here in the US, you have this very bootstraps culture from the very beginning, and so welfare cash payments are provided generally only to widows, single mothers — this is true for a long time.
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Republican lawmakers and witnesses — including Burgess Owens, the retired football star — were jeered when they argued that black people could pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and that reparations might damage their psyches.
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My mom didn't support our family on two jobs people typically associate with teenagers because she was lazy, or because she hadn't figured out how to find her bootstraps and pull herself up by them.
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Small is a first-time candidate with an up-from-the-bootstraps story; the daughter of a teacher and a social worker, she worked her way through college and graduated with honors from Georgetown University.
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Mechanically, it is a game that refuses to allow you to recreate the old myths of The Strong Person tugging on his bootstraps so that he might force the world into the shape he demands.
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"Ray Kroc was like a lot of Americans who came from immigrant families, that's who we are and that's a great thing...a bootstraps kinds of guy", said Keaton, who plays Kroc in the film.
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It's an ethos so culturally ingrained in us that it's hard to see beyond: Self-reliance is paramount, and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps to solve your own problems is a matter of character.
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The Prouds are a firmly middle-class nuclear family; dad Oscar is an entrepreneur obsessed with upward social mobility and pulling himself up by the bootstraps, and mom Trudy comes from a bougie, wealthy background.
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At first, the audience is led to cheer on a family as they pull themselves up by the bootstraps; it is an impossible mission, and you long for the underdogs to pull off their heist.
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Carson frequently used his public platform and his presidential run to decry government overreach and drawn on his personal success story to argue against government welfare programs and in favor of a by-the-bootstraps attitude.
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Having pledged to take away the players' free lunches unless they pull themselves up by their bootstraps against Uruguay, May is rewarded with a 1-1 draw which sees England knocked out at the group stage.
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Trump is still an embodiment of the American dream, but of a particular version of it that has far less to do with bootstraps and hard work and far more to do with working the system.
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Yet even in Spider-Verse — a genuinely wonderful and magical movie — Miles's presence in a magnet school is an easy shorthand for a talented kid from a working-class background pulling himself up by his bootstraps.
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Many such voters point to the illusion of an "up by your bootstraps" mentality and strongly believe that the only way to create a fair economy is to drastically change the way the current one works.
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But his views on poverty alleviation were tough-minded and well-known, informed by his childhood in Detroit and his own bootstraps journey from Motor City urban grit to the operating theater of Johns Hopkins University.
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Instead, we should focus on the message mothers hear and internalize about what it means to be American: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you and your family will be deserving of sympathy and aid.
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Deploying his own up-by-the-bootstraps biography, the Florida senator assailed Mr. Trump for hiring hundreds of foreign workers at his tony resort in Florida and passing over Americans who had applied for the same jobs.
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Their findings indicate that the set of all quantum field theories forms a unique mathematical structure, one that does indeed pull itself up by its own bootstraps, which means it can be understood on its own terms.
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If the American Dream, a flawed premise in and of itself, is about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, what Hilton and Jenner have done is more like standing for a long period of time in Louboutins.
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He can serve as the black face of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," while absolving white conservatives of the need to acknowledge that black people were rarely allowed to pull themselves up in the first place.
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After finishing the book, I wondered if, angry at the propagandist sham of American individualism and bootstraps meritocracy, I'd course-corrected a little too hard — giving up on trying to improve myself or the world around me.
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The Shelby family's wealth and status speak both to pulling oneself up — albeit crookedly — by the bootstraps, and to an archaic opulence that feels like Downton Abbey under stormy skies, smudged with blood and dusted in cocaine.
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If turning to your parents for debt relief just isn't an option, or if you simply prefer to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, it might be time to look at ways to stretch and save your money.
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Much of Jay and Bey's music of late has had a thread of black economic self-empowerment and up-by-your-own-bootstraps lyricism; Everything slyly redistributes some of that responsibility squarely on the shoulders of black women.
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The beauty of this project, which Hauser wants to scale (he was quoted as wanting as many Cafe Momentums as there are Starbucks), is that it's non-political: an up-by-your bootstraps concept with a liberal narrative.
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Personally, I feel like this hiring freeze is a slap in the face to me and all my coworkers who pulled ourselves up by our own bootstraps to get this far and intend to continue to do so.
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Every time you think "Late Night" is settling into familiar tropes — about workplace politics, mean bosses, long marriages, fish out of water, bootstraps and how to pull them — it shifts a few degrees and finds a fresh perspective.
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If I were this deer, and I'm not because I'd clearly be a predator if I were an animal, I'd hoist myself up by my bootstraps and my father's money and I'd really make something of myself, by golly.
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It is unfair for everyday people to struggle by working hard and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps only to have those very boots removed because Republicans fail to live up to the core party principle of fiscal responsibility.
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I've lived in the South my entire life and I love it here, but I am acutely aware that people who think they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps often forget that someone had to make the boots.
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In the face of our national faith that individuals can lift themselves up by their bootstraps, "The Sport of Kings" insists that this history constrains us all in ways we have barely begun to acknowledge, still less to escape.
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Respondents are asked whether African Americans ought to be able to lift themselves up by their bootstraps despite social challenges, whether they lack initiative, whether discrimination is responsible for racial inequity, and whether blacks are more hardworking, or less, than whites.
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The magic "bootstraps" success story (evoked so directly by the title of the series) is often repeated to black schoolchildren as an example of how black women, indeed all black people, can succeed in America if only we work hard enough.
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"Every time you think 'Late Night' is settling into familiar tropes — about workplace politics, mean bosses, long marriages, fish out of water, bootstraps and how to pull them — it shifts a few degrees and finds a fresh perspective," Scott wrote.
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In footage from the 1990s, we see a young, mustached Khodorkovsky suggest to an interviewer that Russians begging on the streets simply aren't working hard enough, perfectly playing the role of the bootstraps capitalist entrepreneur so celebrated in our own culture.
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"It is very much in line with their thinking that you need to pull yourself up by some kind of bootstraps when you're poor, and not have the [government] help you no matter how poor you are," Meeks told The Hill.
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Citing her background, she has spoken extensively about the need to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," while noting that her family relied on help from others like the church and even the government as they were struggling to make ends meet.
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When they're in charge -- however differently they may frame it for the base -- the wealthy will be hired, catered to, indulged and pampered, while the poor will be the target of vicious budget cuts and stern lectures about pulling on those bootstraps.
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Seventh place was reserved for Ms Fiorina, whose pretence involved running as an elite-scorning, up-by-the-bootstraps outsider, who had fought every inch of the way for her success after rising "from secretary to CEO", in her favourite campaign line.
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At a net worth of $1.3 billion dollars, Sir Paul is perhaps the most spectacular example pulling oneself up by the bootstraps, going from manual labourer to superstar all before turning 21, and a national treasure for more than half a century since.
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While many Americans have always resented people crossing the southern border, those same people tend to glorify the immigrant narrative — the classic bootstraps story of coming to America from a beleaguered home country to plant a flag and make a better life.
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We talk unceasingly in this country about pulling oneself up by the bootstraps, but doing so isn't only a matter of managing action, it is also about planning action, and doing that depends on what one really thinks an American minute amounts to.
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In 2016, for example, Trump supporters were more likely to agree with statements like "people who are poor just need to work harder" and "vacations are for weaklings," suggesting a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mindset is alive and well in his base.
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"If they were all Anglos, I don't believe the President would have the attitude that he has, because you don't hear that kind of dog whistle, of people not wanting to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, when the people are Anglos," Green said.
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Not only did he hold his speech at a building known as the "Ellis Island of the South," but Bolton also paid also tribute to the American immigrant tradition by praising Cuban refugees for pulling themselves up by their bootstraps through hard work and sacrifice.
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Cagle, a Republican who has served since 1994, when he was elected as a senator at the age of 28, fashions himself as a "pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps" politician, tipping a hat to his own humble roots on his campaign web site.
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McNaughton's Trump images don't show the president in situations drawn from the headlines; instead, they imagine him as a hybrid of everyman and American hero, a defender of liberty and an instructor in the American virtues of pulling oneself up by one's own bootstraps.
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"The concept of quotas in the U.S., as you know, is antithetical to the American position and possibly the myth that holds that everyone pulls themselves up by their bootstraps," said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers.
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Like any great American immigrant—like the immigrants even right-wing conservatives can point to as proof of our country's exceptionalism and will therefore tolerate—Cyborg came to this country, worked hard, pulled herself up by her bootstraps, built a world from scratch, and then dominated it.
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"Every time you think 'Late Night' is settling into familiar tropes — about workplace politics, mean bosses, long marriages, fish out of water, bootstraps and how to pull them — it shifts a few degrees and finds a fresh perspective," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times.
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Donald Trump Jr., patron saint of the self-made man, picked himself up by his bootstraps and wrote a New York Times best-selling book with absolutely no help at all — unless you count a small $100,000 purchase from his dad's pals at the Republican National Committee.
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By-the-bootstraps ideology may be appealing to some, but it can blind people to the reality that jobs aren't always available to those who seek them and that many people who might otherwise want jobs can't take them because of the various obstacles they face.
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Where "Empire" is about the wages of success in New York, "Star" is the prequel, an up-by-your-bootstraps, backstage-musical tale about a three-girl group trying to break into the big time in Atlanta, with echoes of "Flashdance" and the "Step Up" films.
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The remaining four stones mark the death of the American Dream with the immigration ban; of "Our Future" with the end of DACA; of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with the arrival of Mick Mulvaney; and of "Those Bootstraps They Keep Talking About" with the latest tax bill.
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Her policy team's reliance on Ivy Leaguers, along with the Harvard Law School alumni she regularly consults, reflect the duality in her campaign — the fact that Warren is both an up-by-the-bootstraps success story and a privileged Ivy League professor — that opponents are starting to notice and exploit.
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So maybe it follows that wealth can also make you selfish and unethical: Wealthy people may justify pursuing wealth as a good thing, and craft narratives of "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps," even if they were born into privilege (a narrative peddled by a famous and newly-political family we might know).
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It's disturbing that Carson, a man who knows poverty first-hand and is a pioneer in pediatric neurosurgery, spends so much time arguing in favor of the pull yourself up by your bootstraps philosophy and so little time helping the public understand how prolonged poverty can literally reshape the architecture of the brain.
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As Bong noted in GQ, his is not the first movie about class in recent years; Jordan Peele&aposs "Us," Hirokazu Kore-eda&aposs "Shoplifters," and Lee Chang-dong&aposs "Burning" all grapple with what it means to live in a world where bootstraps are used to bind your hands behind your back.
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And so, he said, while members of his social circle are "horrified" at the prospect of a Trump presidency, they admire a bit of the bootstraps American story: that Mr. Trump, a political ingénue, or Senator Bernie Sanders, the unsuccessful Democratic contender, could surge from nowhere for a shot at the presidency.
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While I was trying, even if I were depressed, anxious or angry about my pregnancy losses, I had no choice but to pull myself up by my bootstraps and make the next fertility appointment, order the latest supplement, fight with my insurance company for coverage and keep my sights on the baby.
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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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While those songs focused more on the negative shit life puts you through with no real reasoning, "I've Been Lost" is a song about self-imposed redemption, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and proudly declaring to the world that you're tired of your own shit, and you're going to do something else now.
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One might assume that turning away from this life to become one of the world's most successful music moguls would fall in line with the right's pulling-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps American dream narrative, but that only seems to apply to suburban men who open small businesses that sell novelty decals for pickup trucks.
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The story is the quintessential American dream — a person who pulls herself up from her bootstraps, working to care for her daughter, and writing at night to make her dreams of being an author come true — with a twist, as Land unveils the realities of poverty with unyielding determination even as she finds success herself.
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What the Times story makes plain is that at least one of the main reasons Trump may never release his returns -- or, at least, a major reason -- is that to do so would implode the myth that he pulled himself up from his bootstraps and through sheer force of will made himself into a billionaire.
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Thanks partly to Robert Halfon, its energetic Conservative MP, that Essex town has become a byword for upwardly mobile but financially insecure voters—often the first generation in their families to hold white-collar jobs—who dislike government meddling but think the state should make it easier for people like them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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Judge Kavanaugh lacks the matinee-idol face of Chief Justice John Roberts, the terse cerebral gymnastics of Justice Sam Alito, the up-from-the-bootstraps intrinsic of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, or the almost cocky self-confidence of Justice Neil Gorsuch, but he nevertheless is a tonic of distraction for what nationally ails us — which is plenty.
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Instead, one of the most profitable companies in the world hands down draconian and capricious punishments against some of its poorest players, to applause from a community that often doesn't understand the choices and pressures of poverty, but has heard a little bit about it, and thinks SmAsH should have just gripped his bootstraps a little tighter.
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We should pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and fight through it and it's a little peculiar to me that whole idea, if someone is physically hurt we're okay with letting them take the time to come back, but if someone is in a difficult place mentally, we're not okay with allowing them to take the time that they need to come back.
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Some people like to go on about how they once drove a truck, grew up in a labor camp, or didn't go to college, while modestly reminding you that, despite these humble beginnings, they have become important cultural figures: they belong to the pull-yourself-up by your own bootstraps school of thinking, which you know, if you know anything, is a delusion.
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And I don't have time to do that if I'm stuck in a Twitter argument with yet another asshole who thinks a magical, time-traveling useful idiot is going to bring back his granddaddy's job that a robot has been doing for 15 years — and who, in addition wants to let me know the lazy "Blacks" need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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At some point, ideally sooner rather than later (because if you wait too long, it'll already be winter), you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps — yes, it's boots season now — and make the best of what you've been given, which is shorter days, falling temperatures, drier skin, and a whole lot of new skin-care launches at Sephora to help make coping with one of those things a little bit easier.
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Their argument boils down to the ideology of meritocracy, that as marginalized people we were able to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, study hard and gain entry, which of course ignores the centuries of redlining and institutional racism experienced by Black and brown communities and that many middle schools in Black and Latinx neighborhoods do not have advanced programs or educators who are equipped to prepare their students for the test.
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After all, Americans get shorted on vacation days (and then short ourselves out of using them); we take the literally impossible ideal of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" seriously; and we work more hours annually per person than Italy, Canada, Australia, the U.K., France, Germany, or even Japan—you know, the same Japan where the work culture is so pervasive and demanding that "businessmen passing out in the streets" is a trope!
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But not only did they give the land, they built land grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm; not only that, they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming; not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms; not only that, today, many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm, and they are the very people telling the Black man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
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