Class Quotes - Page 9

• I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

  James Hillman

  Race, Prejudice, Economics

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Missing, Fabulous

  "Look who's talking". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2002.

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• 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Redneck, Facts, Groups

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• If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

  Simon Hoggart

  Daily Mail, Misery, Imagine

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

  Jeremy Lin

  Reading, Writing, Skills

  Interview With Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

  Maya Lin

  Crazy, School, Nerd

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• My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Together, Kickboxing, Cardio

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• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Cute, Real, Kissing

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• The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

  Arianna Huffington

  Fall, Giants, Banking

  Arianna Huffington (2010). “Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream”, p.5, Broadway Books

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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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• To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

  Hugh Jackman

  Mean, Unique, Men

  "Hugh Jackman's Essential Truth". parade.com. April 26, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

  James Earl Jones

  Senior, Years, Sophomore

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

  Mother Jones

  Technology, Want, Ifs

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• There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Feelings, Important

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• I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

  Michio Kaku

  Effort, Graduates, Language

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• A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Average, Minimum Wage, Enough

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• I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

  Ken Livingstone

  Clever, Kids, Men

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• I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mean, Commitment, Fighting

  Interview with Nicholas Confessore, David M. Halbfinger, www.nytimes.com. December 27, 2008.

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• Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

  Lance Loud

  Race, Degrees, Geography

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• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Law, People

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