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“Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you.”

Knows Way Wells Film Levels Class Industry Producers Better Than You Biased Sexist Film Industry Distributors Financiers

Author:Lynne Ramsay

“Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".”

May Race Class Debate Narrative Etc

Author:Neil Postman

“Our system doesn't work, and it doesn't work, ultimately, not because of Sarah Palin, or the christian right, or Glenn Beck. It doesn't work because the liberal class failed us. The liberal class failed to find the intellectual and moral fortitude to defend liberal values at a time that they were under egregious assault.”

Christian Values Moral Class Intellectual Assault Fortitude Palin Christian Right

Author:Chris Hedges

“I'll co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.”

“I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.”

Years Reading Class Four Taught Six Four Years Aunt Geography Alphabet Reading The Bible

Author:Simon Newcomb

“From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society, and hence the need to elaborate the most universal concepts, the most refined and decisive ideological weapons.”

Needs States Moments Order Moral Class Building Type Calling Weapons Intellectual Concepts Universal Independent Arise Dominant Ideological Refined Subordinates

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.”

Race Class Quantity Working Class Great Unknown

Author:Keir Hardie

“The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.”

Whole Party Opinion Class Struggle Movement Europe Tools Currents Tendencies Latter Working Class Bourgeoisie Organised Opportunism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.”

Men Able Political Class Break Fields Aim Terror Various Categories Working Class Justified Demonstration Subordinates Proletariat Specialty Political Will

Author:Leon Trotsky

“What does Arsenal mean? It means class. The structure of the Club, everything has a classy feel about it. It isn't always about success, there is more than that and this is what makes it a cut above the rest.”

Feels Mean Doe Class Cutting Structure Clubs Arsenal About Success

Author:Charlie Nicholas

“How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.”

People Thinking Years Two Interest Class Hundred Vote Clever Ruling Superb Very Clever

Author:Gore Vidal

“The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.”

People Men Common Class Physicians Polite Courteous

Author:John of Salisbury

“It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.”

Names Difficult Class Sky Keys Standards Notes Scales Chiefs Landscape Sentiments Organs

Book:John Constable

Source: John Constable

“You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest.”

World Use Secret Class Thousand Lifetime World Class

Author:Denis Waitley

“If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.”

Ifs Needs Company Class Huge Paid Management Medicine Lifestyle Alternatives Mainstream Insurance Companies Alternative Medicine

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.”

Persons Today School Law Hours Class Four Please Ten Percent Doctors Mortals Prudence Dean Law School Dizzy Honorary

Author:Branch Rickey

“If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.”

Ifs Class Imagine Middle Misery British Middle Class Mail Imagine That Daily Mail

Author:Simon Hoggart

“The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.”

Giving Important Leader Class Watches Forever Example Important Things Soldier Lectures

Author:Colin Powell

“Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.”

“Marriages are so complicated that no one person is the culprit. But, I am really interested in class without really realizing that I am. It's more the manifestations of different classes that interest me.”

Persons Different Interest Realizing Class Complicated Manifestation Culprit

Author:Nicole Holofcener

“I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.”

People Thinking Jobs Life Is Certain Class Honor Comfortable Journalist Discomfort Badges

Author:Mark Leibovich

“I do some freelance web design stuff. I taught a directing class for this not-for-profit organization here in Chicago a couple months ago. I wrote a thing for Filmmaker Magazine a couple months ago. Occasionally, I'll get to go speak to students at a university and make a little money that way, which is great. I really like doing that.”

Way Littles Speak Stuff Class Design Students Taught Months Couple Organization University Profit Magazines Filmmaker Chicago Little Money Web Design

Author:Joe Swanberg

“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.”

World Needs Helping Jobs America Goal Class Environment Five Middle Taxes Highest Percent Workers Rate Corporate Thirty Middle Class American Business

Author:Lindsey Graham

“We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.”

Long Stills Helping Government Goal Class Too Much Middle Corporations Middle Class Assistance Paychecks Still Life Government Assistance

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.”

Ifs War America Winning Strong President Loses Class Middle Ready Chiefs Champion Gentleman Middle Class Commanders Commander In Chief Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Lindsey Graham

“The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.”

People Stills Black Interesting Class Middle Middle Class Black People Segregation Interesting Things Georgia Atlanta

Author:Richard Benjamin

“When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.”

Wells Moving White Class Middle Percent Flight Middle Class Neighborhood Qualified Latino Tipping Tipping Point Upper Middle Class

Author:Richard Benjamin

“There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.”

Thinking Long Understanding Term Accepting Class Harm Long Term American Life Fixture

Author:Richard Benjamin

“Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up with our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.”

“Muqtada is radical in the sense that he wants the U.S. occupation to end and has always said so from the beginning. Secondly, his support among the Shia really runs along class lines; it's mainly the poor who support him. His organization runs an enormous social network.”

Want Said Ends Running Social Lines Poor Class Support Organization Enormous Radical Occupation Social Network Shia

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.”

Ifs Want Should Stills Ideas Able Class Trump Ridiculous Racist Smarter Sexist

Author:Gloria Steinem

“There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.”

Class Environment Middle Competition Plenty Hypocrisy Middle Class Ambitious Fertile

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That's the beauty of comedy: it's close to a pure meritocracy.”

People Actors Levels Class Comedy Pure Training Folks Comedian Range Robins Meritocracy

Author:Ted Alexandro

“Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.”

“As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.”

Thinking World Long Important Facts Bigs Today Term Ability Cities Class Findings Areas Size Population Long Term Expanding World Class Drawbacks

Author:Charles Landry

“I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.”

Ifs Knows Needs Faces Felt Known Class Boys Worst Calling Female Profession Instance Spokes Over It Occupation Apologizing Shameful Daytime Cushions Lower Class Humdrum

Author:Quentin Crisp

“It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class”

World Matter Class Hungry What Matters World Class

Author:Azim Jamal

“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.”

People Facts Faces Fighting Black Water White Poor Talking Class Fire Mass Racism Capitalism Socialism Brown Yellow Solidarity Lower Class

Author:Fred Hampton

“The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?”

“No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.”

Party Class Influence Movement Products Poison Capitalist Working Class Korea Factions Mould

Author:Kim Jong Il

“If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.”

Ifs Book Kids School Courses Class Clear Training Sorry Practicals Sat I'm Sorry

Author:Robert Sternberg

“When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization and provide all kinds of entertainment for young people, in order that they may come to the Bible classes, is to be foredoomed to failure.”

People Kind May Form Young Order Christ Class Organization Method Entertainment All Kinds Amusement

Author:G. Campbell Morgan

“The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly.”

Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

“Lou Holtz is a brilliant strategist, a first-class motivator, and an inspiring role model. Winning Every Day coaches you through the hard-won lessons of life that Coach Holtz has gleaned from a lifetime of learning. Using personal behind-the-scenes experiences he shows you how to break through obstacles, capitalize on fleeting opportunities, and achieve success. There is no better mentor than Lou Holtz.”

“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.”

“The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that there is no good algorithm for the traveling salesman problem. My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.”

Knows Reason Problem Interest Known Class Possibility Mathematical Theoretical Salesman Algorithms Conjecture

Author:Jack Edmonds

“When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.”

Knows Writing Littles Art Hard Enough Form Poor Class Novel Moved Los Angeles Screenplays Little Money Specs

Author:Stephen Gaghan

“I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how all that could work. It seemed like a great mystery, especially how organelles in the cell can be arranged in three dimensions, and how thousands of proteins could find their way to the right location in the cells.”

Thinking Way Made Three Class Mystery Organization Complexes Cells Dimensions Internals Working It Location Protein Three Dimensions Science Class

Author:James Rothman

“We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.”

Problem Political Ability Class Economic Truth Is Profound Scales Magnitude Economic History

Author:Hugh Hendry

“I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.”

People Children Class Teacher Middle Grew Grew Up Middle Class Librarian Treasured

Author:Lorraine Toussaint

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