Class Quotes - Page 21

• You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

  James Sinegal

  Loss, Dynamics, Economy

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• Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Free Education, People, Safety

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• Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we've given everything we've got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It's not. Everyone needs to refuel.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Girl, Running, Cooking Classes

  "What Jada Pinkett Smith Gave Up for Her Family". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

  Robert Smith

  Musician, Honestly, Passports

  The Hit magazine, 1985.

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• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  Zadie Smith

  Real, Rap, Ghetto

  "We are family". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2005.

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• I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Years, Understanding, Gaps

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.135, Vintage

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• If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day and work out. I work out, I do circuit training so I try to keep my heart rate up whether I'm doing cardio, lifting weights or jumping rope. I like to mix it up. I also take Zumba classes - I love those, those are a blast.

  Jordin Sparks

  Zumba, Crazy, Heart

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• I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

  Britney Spears

  People, Interesting, Psychology

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• The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.

  Lysander Spooner

  Country, Government, People

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings”

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• We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fighting, Men, White

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• Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Support, Ordinary

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• The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

  Andy Stern

  Jobs, Government, Creating

  "Exit Interview: SEIU Head Andy Stern Steps Down". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 15, 2010.

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• I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

  Rod Stewart

  Football, Real, Wine

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• I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

  Sting

  Want, England, Accents

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• There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.

  Emma Stone

  School, Men, Spiders

  "Emma Stone: The Cool Girl". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

  Sharon Stone

  Movie, Song, Real

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• A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

  Barbra Streisand

  School, Men, Law

  "The Sexism in American Politics". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2016.

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• I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

  Barbra Streisand

  Acting, Actresses, Medea

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• As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Army, Germany, Generations

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• Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Book, School

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• Candidates don’t want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, People, Ugly

  "The Bad Boy On the Bus: An Interview With Matt Taibbi". Interview with Janelle Nanos, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2005.

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• In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

  Matt Taibbi

  Country, Thinking, America

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• It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Interesting, Tea

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• Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Meat, Giants

  "Wall Street's Naked Swindle". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2010.

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• The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Lessons, Management, Plans

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

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