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“I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.”

Firsts Persons Kids School Class High School Yale Larks

Author:Maya Lin

“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.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.”

Want Acting Class Stage Fronts Cameras Acting Classes

Author:Nicholas Lea

“Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.”

Opportunity Class Middle Taxes Benefits Bills Congress Favors Relief Middle Class Wealthy Deficit Deductions

Author:Rick Larsen

“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.”

Hard Able Enjoy Class Middle Hard Work Promise Labor Lifetime Fruit Secure Middle Class Retiring Medicare

Author:Al Franken

“I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.”

People Firsts Persons Said Acting Class Laughing Saws Teacher Cry I Realized Quitting Comedian They Said Acting Classes Stand Up Comedian

Author:Wendy Liebman

“When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.”

Firsts Whole Class Moved Dancing Series Library Collections Gym My Sister Lots Of Money Twins Belly Dvds Egyptian

Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.”

Kind School Fiction Class Science Fiction Dork Classes In School

Author:Anson Mount

“When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.”

Mother Acting Class Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing

Author:Beau Mirchoff

“I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.”

Mean Class Tree Fans Hills Tree Hill One Tree Hill Opening

Author:Joe Manganiello

“XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.”

World Looks Helping Realizing Class Successful Brands Full Potential World Class

Author:Mike McGavick

“Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.”

People World School Song Class This World Drama Bicycle Corridors Clip Song And Dance Drama Class

Author:Nick Moran

“I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.”

School Voice Class Wife Theory Lessons Mets My Wife Piano Composition Piano Lesson Music Theory

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“I love working out. Dance classes are my favorite.”

Class My Favorite Work Out Dance Class

Author:Shay Mitchell

“It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.”

Want Firsts Character Common Class Comfort All Things Including Satisfied Luxury Latter Urgent First Class

Book:Principles of Economics

Source: Principles of Economics

“My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.”

Parent Class Middle Position Backgrounds Combination Odd Middle Class Privileged Working Class Upbringing

Author:Denise Mina

“In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.”

People Thinking Art Law Speak Forget Class Middle Brother Dad Journalist Middle Class Accents Working Class Art History Trilogies

Author:Denise Mina

“There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.”

Real Political Social Process Class Working Class Differentiation

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.”

Levels Consciousness Class Expected High Level Militancy Class Consciousness

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.”

Class Mass Conscious Organization Contrary Organized Working Class Vanguard

Author:Ernest Mandel

“The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.”

Problem Class Organization Workers Come Up Concrete Working Class

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.”

Real Consciousness Class Movement Draws Trade Unions Historical Conclusion Day To Day Working Class Day Life Trade Unions Day To Day Life Class Consciousness

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.”

Whole Interest Class Conditions Organization Subordinates Sects Chapel

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”

War Inspiration Motivational Action Moving Three Attitude Class Society Mankind Enlightenment Divided Total War Arabian

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!”

Knows School Class Catholic Clown Catholic School

Author:Sofia Vergara

“I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.”

Helping Class Cutting Middle Demand Taxes Favors Middle Class Extensions Recessions Tax Cuts

Author:Peter Welch

“There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.”

Has Beens States Whole Class Plans Middle Conscious Congress Whole Life Middle Class Legislators Strengthening

Author:Peter Welch

“My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.”

Years Enough Bigs School Girl Fun Waiting Class Groups High School Tiny Get Away Graduates Senior Public School Reunion Senior Year Graduating Class

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.”

Interesting Class Limits Exciting Unpredictable

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.”

Writing Long Voice Class Figures Long Time Formal

Author:Sara Zarr

“My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.”

Parent Class Chosen Enjoyed Performers Dance Class

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.”

“Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.”

“You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.”

Way Games Process Realizing Born Class Taught Late Subtle

Book:Lena

Source: Lena

“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.”

“The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive periodwe prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.”

Should Problem Girl Class Policy Type Parenthood Emergencies Segregation Moron Hereditary Sterilization

Author:Margaret Sanger

“I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.”

Firsts Class Lucky First Class

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.”

Mean Lying Born Class Divided Abolish

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.”

Suffering Class Willing Judgment Mad Faults Dare Dues Aids Criminals Penalties Offense Perversion

Book:Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems

Source: Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems

“Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.”

Men Order Class Husband Inferiors

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.”

“I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.”

School Class Design Degrees Intention Islands Requirements Illustration Illustrators Rhode Island

Author:Brian Selznick

“My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.”

Stills I Can Home School Can Do Class Study Environment Normal Program Independent Online

Author:Karlie Kloss

“I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.”

People Stills States America Fighting United Class United States Citizens United States Of America Second Class Citizens

Book:Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

“When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.”

People Class Disappear Educated Distinction

Author:Confucius

“Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.”

Sometimes Class Function Method Elegant Framework Implementation

Author:John Carmack

“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.”

Thinking Way Heart Important School Turns Speak Language Class Cutting Music Is Crosses Vices Observation Granted Borders Vice Versa

Author:Dan Rather

“And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.”

Class Taken Delusion Expenses Pretense Plunder

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.”

Want America Deals Class Growing Up Growing Stress Core Defined Working Class

Author:Geoff Dyer

“The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.”

Ifs Art Reason Lines Class Walking Lows Edges Rap Vulgar Vulgarity Believable Graffiti Rap Music Graffiti Art Public Art

Author:Ralph Bakshi

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