Paul Fussell Quotes
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.Paul Fussell
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I never was a popular kid in class.
Nathan Myhrvold -
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.
Harriet Martineau -
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.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
Larry Holmes -
I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
Zig Ziglar -
Class is more important than a game.
Pat Summitt
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I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
G. Willow Wilson -
I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
Cara Delevingne -
You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
J. Paul Getty -
I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jack Gould -
There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
Edith Head
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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.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
Dana Hill -
I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
Hari Kunzru -
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.
Adele -
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P. G. Wodehouse -
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.
Barack Obama
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I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
Benigno Aquino III -
You're an actor, you want to do a scene in class. But one of the things I've always had is I've always had a really good memory. So I would go and watch a movie and then I would see a scene in the movie and I go, hey I'd like to do that in class this Wednesday.
Quentin Tarantino -
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
Jack Welch -
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
Paul Fussell