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I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

— Misty Copeland

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

— Nora Ephron

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

— Vanessa Marcil

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

— Misha Collins

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

— Gloria Votsis

I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

— Ben Savage

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

— Chely Wright

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

— John Lewis

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

✗Opposing Perspectives

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

— Ozwald Boateng

I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant.

— Joe Bastianich