Class Quotes
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In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
Van Jones
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My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.
Toby Stephens
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You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?
Ken Robinson
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Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.
K. Pattabhi Jois
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Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.
P. G. Wodehouse
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In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
Willard Scott
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The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.
Angelo Codevilla
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The French? Upper class. Now, this is not all of France, it's just the French upper class, and it's very true. That's the way that they are, yes.
Leslie Caron
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We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.
Anthony Crosland
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In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
William Standish Knowles
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Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.
Sadie Calvano
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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
William Nicholson
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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
William Greider
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I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really love to draw when I was a kid and then I took like an art class - because everyone said, 'Oh, you're so good, you should take a class and maybe you can be really good,' and then I went to the class and then they showed me how to use a ruler and perspective and all this stuff and it totally made me not want to do it at all.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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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
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I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.
Mike Leigh
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What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.
Barack Obama
