Class Quotes - Page 8

• The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, Government, People

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

  Billy Corgan

  My Family, Middle, Backgrounds

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

  Billy Corgan

  Kind, Fit, Trendy

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• Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Youth, Working Class

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• It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

  Barbara Kruger

  People, Support, Hard

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• When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Technique, Stories

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• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  R. D. Laing

  Nature, Society, Matter

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Looks, Actors, Sides

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: I’m Typecast For Being Rich". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.

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• There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.

  Ray Dalio

  Two, Growth, Return

  CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

  Claire Danes

  School, Psych, Firsts

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• My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.

  Claire Danes

  Beautiful, Math, Hands

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• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  Larry David

  Army, Years, Long

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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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• I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

  Hilary Duff

  Years, Two, Voice

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• People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

  Shia LaBeouf

  Dream, Swimming, People

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• Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorising them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Dad, Son, Cameras

  "Tom Hiddleston: 'The dream is to keep surprising yourself'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Educational, Kids, New Orleans

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