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“I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.”

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Author:Michelle Trachtenberg

“I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.”

School Left Class Blue Working Class Public School Scholarship Collars Exam Uneducated Blue Collar Educated And Uneducated

Author:Rupert Graves

“I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.”

Doe Feelings Remember Felt Pay Class Scared Discouraged Intimidated

Author:Meaghan Rath

“So, Wesley Clark is running for president. Pretty amazing guy. Four star general, first in his class at West Point, supreme commander of NATO, saw combat in Vietnam, won the bronze star, silver star, the purple heart for being wounded in battle. See, I'm no political expert, but that sounds pretty good next to choking on a pretzel, falling off a scooter and dropping the dog.”

“Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.”

Kind Real Kids Wanted Class Ambition Drawing Stuck Being The Best Cant

Author:Damien Hirst

“It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward-shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess in there.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Long Said Form Used Pleasure Class Study Special Subjects Shapes Projects Devil Okay Agree Suicide Used To Be Mess Gentleman Satan Long Ago Inward Bangs Shameful Infantile

Author:Martin Amis

“The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.”

Needs Firsts May Two Class Duty Citizens Mass Foundation Pursuit Grades Divided

Book:Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

“By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.”

Ifs States Use Poor Class Rich Talent Youth Genius

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.”

Firsts Home School Class Teacher Heard Couple Drama High School Albums Kicks Texas Bob Dylan Back Home

Author:Steve Earle

“It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.”

Ends Choices Nations Process Difficult Class Circumstances Surrender Eclectic Coherence Idiosyncrasies

Author:George W. S. Trow

“Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college.”

Class College Science Class

Author:Michele Bachmann

“Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.”

Thinking Feels Mean Problem Class Taught Involved Behavior Concepts Definitions Productions Solve Behave Assumption

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.”

Moral Class Personality Alabama

Author:Katherine Webb

“In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.”

Certain Stuff Class College Dresses

Author:Russell Westbrook

“Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.”

Want Class Ireland Castes Protestantism Northern Ireland Caste System Class System Unionism

Author:Seamus Heaney

“I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.”

Remember Strong Class Physics Biology Physiology

Author:Barbara Block

“An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.”

Law Class Limits Behavior Response Elites Cheat Rule Of Law Degrade Plunder

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.”

Class Novel Trouble Jokes Down And Pops Brilliant Bored Grades

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.”

Way Class Middle Rage Middle Class Populist Pundits Anger And Fear

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“The goal of gospel teaching... is not to 'pour information' into the minds of class members... The aim is to inspire the individual to think about, feel about, and then do something about living gospel principles.”

Thinking Feels Mind Individual Goal Class Principles Teaching Information Inspire Members Aim

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.”

Ifs Should Home Fall Class Greater Demand Degrees Commodity Landlord Opulence

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!”

Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.”

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Author:Cornel West

“The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay.”

Life Is Moral Class Redemption Journalist Elites Incapable Relativism Discerning Gilded Sophistry Moral Relativism Derelict Chardonnay

Book:The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories

Source: The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories

“You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.”

World Different Whole Levels Class Careers Player Moved International Whole World League Maximum Different Levels World Class Premier League

Author:Gerard Houllier

“No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.”

Ifs Writing Firsts May Self Reading Born Fiction Class Teach Reader Wide Urges Self Knowledge Fiction Writers Reading Fiction

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.”

People Thinking Two Sex Quality Class Subjects Regard Feminist Mediums Feminine Divides Masculine

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.”

Humans Humanity Winning Human Beings Class Rights Middle Gains Bases Property Titles Middle Class Working Class Liberating

Book:Marx: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Marx: A Very Short Introduction

“Arsenal are the most beautiful club in England. At Man City and Chelsea, they will never have that class and style.”

Men Beautiful Cities Class Style England Clubs Arsenal Chelsea

Author:Marco van Basten

“Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise.”

World Trying Has Beens Matter Form Next Class Century Reader Arise Astonishment Paralyzed Make Out Contingency

Author:L. Sprague de Camp

“Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.”

Knows World Needs Years Long Seems Three Found Hours Brain Class Practice Cases Week Achieve Thousand Ten Accomplished Mastery Expertise World Class

Author:Daniel Levitin

“[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy.”

People Knows Want Needs Use Home Values Individual Social Justice Enemy Class Social Justice Greed Elites Ruling Surplus

Author:Michael Parenti

“The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.”

“I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.”

World Courses Quality Company Class Golf Championship Outstanding Golf Course World Class Great Respect

Author:Kapil Dev

“There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.”

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Author:Mark Haddon

“Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.”

World Religious Class Opera Conservatism Public Life Starbucks World Class Tulsa

Author:Anne Hull

“Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.”

Class Middle Grew Circumstances Grew Up Honestly Middle Class Modest Middle Class Family

Author:Larry Gagosian

“There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes. They're working class kids who died in wars and now billionaires want to run abroad to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. What patriotism! What love of country!”

“They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?”

“The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.”

People World Used Class Middle Perception Filled Accepted Middle Class Weekend Vehicle Skiing Elitist Porsche Usc

Author:Brian Grazer

“Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.”

“The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.”

Way Art Stills Sex Class Entertainment Old Fashioned Prerogative Upper Class Scott Fitzgerald

Book:Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present

Source: Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present

“I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.”

Mind Mean Enjoy Class Minutes Negative Stones Criticism Hot Critics Sake Cruelty Rolling Jerk Rolling Stones

Author:Patrick Stump

“I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it.”

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Author:Jon Bernthal

“There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and I think that it's important to continue to draw these parallels so that when we think about our future we can change some of the lives of people who love differently than we do, look different than we do, who come from a different class. It's all about bringing awareness to how important it is to be accepting of people...and there will be oppression if one group thinks they're more important or superior.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Humans Looks Important Different Human Beings Accepting Class Rights Groups Awareness Draws Majority Superiors Oppression Our Future Parallels

Author:Janelle Monae

“In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.”

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Author:Zoe Saldana

“Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.”

People Class Principles Color Skins

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.”

Ideas Wanted Life Is Class Teaching College Office Research Library Appeals Glamorous Glamorous Life

Author:Ben Stein