Class Quotes - Page 16

• I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

  Denise Mina

  School, Warrior, Men

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• I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Class System, Royal

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• I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Clown, Used, Fooling Around

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• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  Cory Monteith

  Teacher, Years, Community

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

  Michael Moore

  Unions, Middle, Middle Class

  "Happy F**kin’ Labor Day!" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2010.

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• I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

  Michael Moore

  Reality, Criticism, Acknowledge

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• I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

  Michael Moore

  Guy, Midwest, Goes On

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• Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, Violence, Crime

  "Celebrating the Prince of Peace in the Land of Guns" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 24, 2012.

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• New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

  Michael Moore

  New York, Cities, Easy

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• People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

  Michael Moore

  College, People, Towns

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• When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

  Michael Moore

  School, Littles, Enough

  "Michael and me". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2004.

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• Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.

  Dylan Moran

  Yoga, Therapy

  "This much I know". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.

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• I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

  Mark Morris

  People, Want, Study

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• Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

  Toni Morrison

  Mean, Boys, People

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.261, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Important, Development, Pay

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• Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

  Dee Dee Myers

  Priorities, Example, Warfare

  "What class warfare really looks like" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com.

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• In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Running, Campaigns, Voters

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• For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

  Howard Nemerov

  Literature, Serious, Retail

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “Journal of the Fictive Life”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

  Robert De Niro

  Mother, Husband, School

  "New Again: Robert De Niro". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, Colleen Kelsey and Peter Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

  Bill Nye

  Teaching, Alternatives, Evolution

  "Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ Talks Creationism Critique, Religion, Education". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Powerful, Home, Blue

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• I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Kids, Islands, Who I Am

  "The Gospel according to Bill O'Reilly?". Interview with Norah O'Donnell, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2013.

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• As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Teacher, Motivation, Creativity

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• I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

  Peter O'Toole

  Fun, Years, My Favorite

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• Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Intelligent, Details, Taught

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.67, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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