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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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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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 am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
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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.
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I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.
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Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual.
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Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
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The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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It just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis -- far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.
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When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
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If you hear something you're unable to play, then you have room to grow.
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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.
