Class Quotes - Page 18

• My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

  Rick Perry

  Simple, People, Quality

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• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  Rick Perry

  School, College, Texas

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• You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

  Rick Perry

  Height, Exceptional, Backgrounds

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Girl, Attractive, Young

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.

  Busy Philipps

  Cake, Cities, Doe

  "Busy Philipps: Reality Show Wunderkind". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 22, 2013.

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• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Distinction, Concerned

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.

  Pink

  Military, Luxury, Upset

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• I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

  Steven Pinker

  Struggle, Thinking, Years

  "The Violent Dangers of Ideology". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. November 03, 2011.

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• However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

  Steven Pinker

  Want, Might, Revolution

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• In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

  Steven Pinker

  Ideas, Political, Age

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.154, Penguin

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• When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

  Brad Pitt

  Art, Littles, London

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

  John Podhoretz

  Cutting, Levels, Claims

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• Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

  John Polkinghorne

  Years, Village, Vicars

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• I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

  Miuccia Prada

  Kids, Wings, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

  Dennis Prager

  Evil, Poverty, Example

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• I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  White, Structure, Knows

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• I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  School, Kids, Law

  TimeOut Interview, www.timeout.com.

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• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

  Ramakrishna

  Medicine, Going Away, Physicians

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  College, People, Listening

  Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (2013). “Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

  Satyajit Ray

  Play, Cities, Population

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

  Keanu Reeves

  Funny, School, Mean

  "Keanu Heads Down Under With 'Constantine'". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2005.

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• I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.

  John C. Reilly

  Hard Work, Men, Chicago

  "Conquer Your Shortcomings". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. December 15, 2011.

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• I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

  Ryan Reynolds

  Skills, Parent, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

  Sally Ride

  Men, Astronaut, Used

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