Class Quotes - Page 15

• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Ordinary, Lawyer

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• Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Home, Motherhood

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• I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

  Camille Paglia

  Order, Waiting, Essays

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• The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

  Satchel Paige

  Change, Baseball, Citizens

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• There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

  Thomas Paine

  Reflection, Thinking, Two

  Thomas Paine (1826). “The age of reason”, p.36

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• Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

  Christopher Paolini

  Teacher, Writing, School

  "Christopher Paolini: 'Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon'" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

  Rosa Parks

  Tired, Citizens, Treated

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• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  Danica Patrick

  School, Lasts, Painful

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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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• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  Nancy Pelosi

  Fighting, Past, Middle

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• For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Opportunity, Years, Cities

  The House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

  Charles Schumer

  Dream, Monday, Morning

  Chuck Schumer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 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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