First Class Quotes - Page 7

• Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to.

  Dov Davidoff

  Mean, Class, Flying

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• It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Photography, Lying, Hands

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• It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am.

  Rudolf Bing

  Tired, Class, Sick

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• So when you do board, the first class people, they're sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They're looking up at you like, Hey, we're making money right now!

  Brian Regan

  Class, People, Boards

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• If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

  Maya Angelou

  Cutting, Class, Support

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

  Jackie Robinson

  Baseball, Class, People

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• The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

  Eric Fellner

  Class, Space, Growth

  "Pinewood Studios submits revised plans for controversial expansion" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'

  Edgerrin James

  Airports, Class, Tourists

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• The vineyards of philanthropy are pleasant places, and I would hope good men and women will be drawn there.... If these vineyards are to thrive and bear their best fruit, they must always have first-class attention.

  Harold J. Seymour

  Men, Class, Good Man

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• To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thinking all over the world, that if they just sink enough money into a university, it will emerge in a few years as a first-class institution. But such rapid growth never happens. It takes time; it takes generations.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Thinking, Years, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A second-class is a first-class mistake.

  William Arthur Ward

  Mistake, Class, Effort

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• I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

  James Thayer

  Strong, Writing, Class

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• My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

  David Ogilvy

  Class, Way, Firsts

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• An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Class, Brain, Want

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• Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

  Method Man

  Airplane, Men, Class

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• Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Class, Doe

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Sorry, Eye

  "How Can I Become the Woman of Whom I Dream?". Ensign magazine, p. 93, May 2001.

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• Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Class, Play, Feelings

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• You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.

  Kanye West

  Class, Want, Firsts

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• Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

  Bill Geist

  New York, Class, Dollars

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• All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Class, People

  Said on June 19, 1787. "The Records Of The Federal Convention Of 1787". Book edited by Max Farrand. Volume I, p. 299, 1937.

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• You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

  Eric Liu

  Class, Citizens, Paper

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• I would be delighted to show my film in the Viennale. I do not offer press kits. I do not offer stills. I do not offer screeners. I do not offer DVD's. I do not offer posters. I require a first-class flight to bring the print however I do not offer any photo ops or press exchange in any way. My fee for showing my film is $35,000 dollars US.

  Vincent Gallo

  Dvds, Class, Dollars

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• A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Class, Community, Firsts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• The British Airways steward announced that the in-flight movie would be Chariots of Fire. 'Is that the only one?' I asked. 'We are also showing Gandhi,' he replied. 'Where do I have to sit to see it?" I responded. 'I'm sorry, sir, but Gandhi is only showing in first class.' The irony seemed to escape him.

  Jim Wallis

  Sorry, Class, Fire

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