These are human stories, rags to riches tales, kids from the hood who made it good.
One thing is for sure: There is no lack of chutzpah among our rags to riches bunch.
And on this same night is another baseball rags to riches story that became the second most historic collapse and unlikely result.
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Untold numbers went from rags to riches, while the great majority of individuals were able to live better than their parents and grandparents had.
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For many years Charles Feeney, who went from rags to riches as co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers chain, carried anonymous giving to extremes.
But Farmer was always careful to leave the knot looser on his towel so that it sank faster, according to his autobiography, Rags to Riches (Orange Frazer Press, 2004).
The 36-year-old is concluding the ultimate rags to riches career against '"he Executioner" Hopkins and then four-weight world champion Jones, two bonafide living legends who could no longer run from the Welshman.
Talk about a rags to riches story.
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But exactly how those stars who have elevated themselves from rags to riches handle their fame depends on several things, including how quickly they attain it and what kind of support system they surround themselves with once they have it.
Manchester City is the latest rags to riches story, where billionaire Sheikh Mansour bought the team in 2008 and has since spent over 300 million pounds on players to get the club its first ever English Premier League title in 2012.
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The world's interest in Ireland is not confined to its rags-to-riches story.
After all, Winfrey has long traded on a reputation that she has worked hard to reinforce as an open, rags-to-riches every-woman.
The man who picked up the tab turned out to be working for Mr Riaz, a rags-to-riches businessman who runs a property empire called Bahria Town.
He said Rowling's rags-to-riches success and the imaginative stories stirred a passion for artistic expression.
The rags-to-riches trial lawyer and onetime hedge fund adviser ran as the angry man.
Though Hershey's is sometimes described as a rags-to-riches story, he was never truly poor.
Consider the classic Horatio Alger rags-to-riches story: Redemption was found through financial gain.
Mr Sahara has a rags-to-riches story and is a household name in India.
On one level, the book follows the narrative trope that drives so many celebrity memoirs: the rags-to-riches story arc.
It is run by flamboyant businessman Subroto Roy Sahara who styles himself as a "worker's friend" and has a rags-to-riches story.
Her rags-to-riches-to-exile journey begins in the humility of her youth as a poor girl who gains fame as a beauty pageant winner.
In "The Thrill of the Chase, " he lays out his unusual rags-to-riches story while sharing memories of his favorite adventures and mischief-making.
He styles himself as a "worker's friend" and has a rags-to-riches story.
Yet the Daniels legacy is about more than a rags-to-riches story, his position as the pre-eminent watchmaker of his time and an ingenious inventor.
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The film is a rags-to-riches tale of an improbable 18-year-old winner of the Hindi version of the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Filipinos adore him for his rags-to-riches career and his unpretentious charm.
Interestingly, Knox's rags-to-riches story has helped him make inroads in the black community, while Nutter's longstanding criticism of Street has resulted in good numbers among white voters.
Hailed as one of China's most successful rags-to-riches entrepreneurs, Huang got started in business by selling home electronics in the nation's capital sourced from factories in Guangdong province.
Slumdog Millionaire, a rags-to-riches story set in the slums on Mumbai, is up for best movie, male and female breakthrough performances, best kiss and best song - for AR Rahman's Jai Ho.
The "rags-to-riches" catch-phrase notwithstanding, when you examine Alger's novellas, it's clear that the heroes like Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom were more concerned about social status and self-respect than about amassing great wealth.
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