First Class Quotes - Page 5

• I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

  Richard Strauss

  Inspiring, Music, Second Chance

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• Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

  Andrew Sarris

  Civilization, Class, Two

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• It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Player, Class, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

  Norman Maclean

  Brother, Father, Sea

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

  Gina Barreca

  Women, Anger, Class

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• People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hands, Class, People

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.

  Tom Harkin

  Gay, Bisexual, Past

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• As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Age, Mail

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

  Tommy Douglas

  Believe, Boys, Thinking

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• The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

  Booker T. Washington

  Sight, Class, House

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Pain, Stupid, Class

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• That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It's an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have.....The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay's quarterback. We'd probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb).

  Terrell Owens

  Integrity, Team, Athlete

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• First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.

  Cory Booker

  Graduation, Kindness, Heart

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• I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Class, Giving

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• As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Power, Class

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• Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

  William Feather

  Leadership, Jobs, Class

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Class, Widows, Firsts

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and everyone’s got their newspapers and they’re on the computer, and I’m like, 'Can I get a coloring book, please? Can I get some crayons?'

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Book, Kids

  "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", 2012.

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• You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school. “They said that about all the great visionaries.” “You know who else they said it about?” Angela demanded. “All the actual crazy people.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Crazy, School, Class

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• One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.

  Bronislaw Huberman

  Class, Orchestra, Fists

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• As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.

  Trish Stratus

  Nice, Class, Luxury

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• Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Education, Men, Opportunity

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• Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Confidence, Class, Long

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• The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and electronegative. The simple bodies which belong to the first class, as well as their oxides, always take up positive electricity when they meet simple bodies or oxides belonging to the second class; and the oxides of the first class always behave with the oxides of the other like salifiable bases with acids.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Simple, Oxygen, Taught Us

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• We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic acts? I challenge you to name one...Do we need to wait until our cities lie in smoking ruins before we wake up to the fact that a first-class public library is a vital link in national defense?

  Garrison Keillor

  War, Lying, Book

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