Class Quotes - Page 7

• I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.

  Shawn Johnson

  Mind, Relax, Three

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• We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Workers, Capitalist

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• Everyone has class, one class or another.

  Francesca Annis

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• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  Francesca Annis

  England, Middle, Should

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• There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

  Jesse Jackson

  College, Race, Jail

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• I’ve decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what’s right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  "Tammy Baldwin Announces Senate Run In Wisconsin" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

  Henry James

  Men, Ninety Nine, People

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1147, Delphi Classics

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• Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Should Have, Gentleman, Honor

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes”, p.17

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• When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Parent, Energy

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• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  H. Rap Brown

  Middle, Divides, Lower Class

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• Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

  H. Rap Brown

  Luxury, Structure

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• I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

  Luke Bryan

  Heart, Brain, Would Be

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• The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Senior, Desire, Majority

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2010). “Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from National Review (Large Print 16pt)”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Thinking, Skills, People

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 5, 2004.

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• I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.

  Sophia Bush

  College, Kickboxing, Boxes

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• I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

  Vanilla Ice

  White, America, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 6, 1998.

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• And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Black, Division

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, People, Black

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

  Evan Davis

  Love, Silly, School

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

  Richard Dawkins

  Appreciation, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

  Jim DeMint

  Country, America, Doors

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• When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!

  Zooey Deschanel

  Exercise, Skills, Want

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• I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.

  Matt Dillon

  Fun, School, Kids

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• I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

  Beth Ditto

  Bmw, People, House

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• I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

  Snoop Dogg

  Mother, Drama, School

  "Snoop Dogg: 'Women are getting empowered. Now I have a daughter, I understand'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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