Class Quotes - Page 22

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

William S. Burroughs

Citizens, Composites

"Junkie". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1953.

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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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Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.

Deb Caletti

Jesus, Math, Cracks

Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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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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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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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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She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Years, Hot, Relief

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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

Nick Cave

Sorrow, Pants, Hysterical

Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Country, Blue, Land

W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.113, Oxford University Press

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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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If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.

Joe Bageant

Exercise, Doors, Police

Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.173, Broadway Books

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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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There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.

Josh Turner

Sports, School, Opportunity

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If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

Sarah Vowell

Spring, Reading, Writing

FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Sep 05, 2015

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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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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

Yulia Tymoshenko

Real, Jail, People

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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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Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

Nawal El Saadawi

Country, Believe, Thinking

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Class still matters in Britain today.

Johnny Vegas

Matter, Today, Britain

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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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The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

Philip Zimbardo

Life, Exercise, Dynamics

"Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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