Class Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

  Spike Lee

  Art, Children, Grandmother

  "Spike Lee Interview IF GOD IS WILLING AND DA CREEK DON'T RISE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

  Rand Paul

  Children, School, Color

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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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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• I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

  Matthew Perry

  Senior, School, Kids

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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 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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• 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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