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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I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.
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There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'
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You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.
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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.
