First Class Quotes - Page 3

I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.

Alber Elbaz

Fashion, Thinking, Class

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In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.

James Bryant Conant

Country, Educational, Science

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Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

Edward Eggleston

Class, Interesting, Funeral

Edward Eggleston (1872). “The End of the World: A Love Story”, p.59

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I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

Joel Osteen

Class, Want, Firsts

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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

Alan Kay

Believe, Should Have, Class

Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Malcolm X

Men, White Man, Talking

"Brown University student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech". www.nj.com. February 6, 2012.

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Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

Shia LaBeouf

Country, Dad, Father

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Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Charles Krauthammer

Character, Men, Class

"Obama & Friends: Judge Not?". The Washington Post Article, www.washingtonpost.com. October 10, 2008.

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Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

Bruce Lee

Morning, Writing, Blank Mind

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Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Class, People, Trying

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

Andy Hargreaves

Leadership, Learning, Caring

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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.

May Sarton

Self, Class, Two

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I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Gene Simmons

Travel, Class, Assistants

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It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.

William Howard Taft

Education, Teacher, School

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It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus, Believe, Practice

Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.

William J. H. Boetcker

Life, Writing, Class

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Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.

James A. Michener

Son, Texas, Class

James A. Michener (2014). “Texas: A Novel”, p.1685, Dial Press

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As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration, Men, Thinking

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4265, Delphi Classics

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Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

Rita Rudner

Jobs, Airplane, Men

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I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

Curtis Jackson

Stars, Thinking, Class

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

Charles William Eliot

Education, Book, Class

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There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.

Gerald Stanley Lee

Business, Men, Class

Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”

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It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

Gregory Bateson

Class, Sphinx, Answers

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With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Shane Warne

Attitude, Ambition, Player

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The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

Jerry Goldsmith

Class, Able, Firsts

"Music for the Movies". Book by Tony Thomas, p. 209, 1973.

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