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.
Nathan Myhrvold
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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.
Harriet Martineau
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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.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
Larry Holmes
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
Zig Ziglar
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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
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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.
G. Willow Wilson
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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
Cara Delevingne
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
J. Paul Getty
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We've seen many heroes from Jamaica, you know, and to be put in that class or to be looked upon on that level is overwhelming. It's pretty big shoes to fill, you know. I'm a size eight, but I'll try my best.
OMI
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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jack Gould
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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
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Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
Fay Wray
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I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
Dana Hill
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
Jackson Browne
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
Hari Kunzru
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The class war is over.
Tony Blair
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
Callie Khouri
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
Abby Wambach
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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.
Paul Fussell