Class Quotes - Page 11

• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, America, Long

  "Tomdispatch Interview: Ehrenreich, The Prey and the Predators". Interview with Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com. June 4, 2006.

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• I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Firsts, Grades, Norm

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• A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Strong, Digging, Economy

  "Special Coverage for the DNC". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2008.

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• The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

  Friedrich Engels

  Republic, States, Instruments

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• These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

  Rupert Everett

  Queens, Gay, Movement

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• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  Paloma Faith

  Emotional, People, Support

  "Paloma Faith: 'I have an inability to lie'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Race, Hiv

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• I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

  Paul Feig

  Reunion, Incidents, Carrie

  "Director Paul Feig Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 5, 2012.

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• Every director should take an acting class.

  Paul Feig

  Acting, Directors, Should

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• I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

  Bob Feller

  Gun, Russia, Alabama

  "For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.

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• I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, Class System, Unfair

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• I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

  Will Ferrell

  Teacher, Math, Exercise

  "Will Ferrell says growing up in Irvine made him funny". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. July 23, 2008.

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• One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

  Tim Ferriss

  Skills, World, Lifetime

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• I came from a real working-class show business family.

  Sally Field

  Real, Shows, Show Business

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• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, School, Play

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• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  Nathan Fillion

  School, Sick, One Day

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• You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

  Jennie Finch

  Motherhood, Being A Mom, Learning Experience

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• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  E. M. Forster

  Children, Literature, Middle

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• Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

  Ron Fournier

  Self, Roots, Political

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• Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

  Thomas Frank

  Wave, Made, Retro

  "Decline with a Chance of Fall" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2008.

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• I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

  Al Franken

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

  Al Franken

  Hard Work, Promise, Able

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

  James Gandolfini

  School, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

  Janeane Garofalo

  People, Rooms, Clown

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• I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

  Teri Garr

  Acting, Eric, Littles

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.

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