Class Quotes - Page 12

• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Law, People

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• I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Movie, Stars, People

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• I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Trouble, Said, Shovels

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• The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

  Ben Kingsley

  Hierarchy, London, Certain

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• Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspiration, Grace, Style

  "Napster Brings Music to the Masses; 'The Sopranos' Season Finale Ends With a Bang; Kyra Sedgwick Looks to Become New Talk of TV". "Showbiz Today" with Laurin Sydney and Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2000.

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• If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

  C. Everett Koop

  Kids, Circles, Green

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• Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Character, Men, Firsts

  "Obama & Friends: Judge Not?". The Washington Post Article, www.washingtonpost.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Peace

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• It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

  Barbara Kruger

  People, Support, Hard

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• I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

  Diane Kruger

  Ideas, World, Middle

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• People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

  Shia LaBeouf

  Dream, Swimming, People

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• When Americans are worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, Congress and the president must work together to lift our economy and restore hope. That is the course the New Direction Congress will continue in the days and weeks ahead.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, Jobs, Home

  "USA Today: Pelosi – We Need To Do More". www.democraticleader.gov. October 15, 2008.

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• I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

  Christian Lacroix

  Song, English Class

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• We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Educational, Kids, New Orleans

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• Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

  Anne Perry

  Country, Different, Sometimes

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

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• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  R. D. Laing

  Nature, Society, Matter

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

  Ann Landers

  Sacrifice, Manners, Considerate

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• Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

  Ann Landers

  Kings, Crowds, Common

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

  Jaron Lanier

  News Stories, Quirky, Video

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

  James Larkin

  Cancer, Cutting, Humanity

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

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• I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

  Brie Larson

  Taken, Done, Conversation

  "Brie Larson 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

  Jenny Lawson

  Real, Anxiety Disorder, Speaks Out

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• The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

  Stephen Leacock

  Book, Reading, Medicine

  1913 Behind the Beyond,'Homer and Humbug'.

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• My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.

  NeNe Leakes

  Stars, Taken, Fighting

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