Paul Fussell Quotes
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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Class is more important than a game.
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I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
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There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
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I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.
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I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. I think I remind everyone of themselves. I'm not saying everyone is my size, but it's relatable because I'm not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.
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Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
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There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
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What's so cool about movies is once you're done with the movie, you put it away and come up with a whole new different idea with different characters and a different world. But in TV, you build these characters, and you build this world, and then you're there for however long you do the show.
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England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.
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A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
