Class Quotes - Page 17

• I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

  Andy Roddick

  Taken, Littles, Enough

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• Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

  Dennis Rodman

  Funny, Sports, School

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• Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

  Dennis Rodman

  Like Me, High Class

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• If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

  Seth Rogen

  Next, Asks, Ifs

  "Seth Rogen, Director Michel Gondry, Evan Goldberg and Producer Neal Moritz Interview GREEN HORNET". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

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• When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

  Anne Roiphe

  Hair, America, Looks

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Country, Kids

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• And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Honor, President

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Film, Feds

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• Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

  Pete Townshend

  People, Hypocrisy, Being Sad

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• You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

  Donald Trump

  Funny, People, Rich

  "Exclusive: Donald Trump Would Spend $600 Million of His Own Money On Presidential Bid" by Ashleigh Banfield, Rich Mchugh and Suzan Clarke, abcnews.go.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Helping, Middle

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• My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

  Marco Rubio

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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• Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, President, Prosperity

  Marco Rubio's response speech to Barack Obama's state of the union 2013 address, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

  Anne Tyler

  Literature, Levels, Study

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• This opportunity – to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter where you start out in life – it isn't bestowed on us from Washington. It comes from a vibrant free economy where people can risk their own money to open a business.

  Marco Rubio

  Opportunity, People, Risk

  Marco Rubio's Reply Speech to Barack Obama's State of The Union Address, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

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• People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Love, Positive, Struggle

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.102, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  Salman Rushdie

  Growing Up, Kids, Listening

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• Class still matters in Britain today.

  Johnny Vegas

  Matter, Today, Britain

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• I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

  Richard Russo

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

  Richard Russo

  Theme, Endure, Working It

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• I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

  Johnny Vegas

  Believe, Ideas, Ruling The World

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• Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Groups, Income

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• We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Years, Goal

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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