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“The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on.”

Needs Helping Home Kids Order Poor Class Middle Ready Healthy Safety Middle Class Retiring Educate Need Help Safety Net

Author:Barney Frank

“The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.”

Want Problem Nations Class Poverty Struggle Economic Unnecessary Transitory Muddle Economic Problems

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.”

Men States Class Rate Extremes Favors Texas Second Chance Noisy Second Rate Texan West Texas

Author:Sam Houston

“I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate.”

People Mean Action Language Community United Class Fate Blood Subjects Committed Connected Collectives Socialist My Thoughts Thoughts And Actions

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.”

Thinking Fiction Class Middle Fine Mets Witty Middle Class Working Class

Author:Martin Amis

“I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.”

Years Said Lines Class Ten Instance Professors Harvard Bakers One Line

Book:Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

“There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.”

Source: The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer

“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.”

People Stories White Class Middle Library Triumph Middle Class Norm Suspicious Mislead Great Success Upper Class

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the beach. And it wasn't because I was lazy; it was because my freshman class would go to a hundred different employers and wouldn't get a nibble.”

Years Different Class Four Hundred Beach Lazy Four Years Employers Freshman Undergraduate

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.”

Ifs Children Matter Speak Community Memories Existence Class Doors Middle Adults Concern Middle Class Chicago Potatoes Starving Poignant Niceties

Author:Paul Samuelson

“Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.”

Made Kids Girl Sides Behinds Known Class Boys Brother Personality Lows East Shirts Pairs Spokes Hiding Steel Gentleness Collars Lovable Spectacles Ira Gershwin Cuffs East Side Incongruity

Author:Yip Harburg

“I am a world-class weenie when it comes to letting people stick needles into me. My subconscious mind firmly believes that if God had wanted us to have direct access to our bloodstreams, He would have equipped our skin with small, clearly marked doors.”

People Ifs World Mind Believe Wanted Class Doors Direct Skins Sticks Access Subconscious Needles Subconscious Mind World Class

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.”

Problem Class Majority Sole Powerless Ruling Brooks Bribe Coerce

Book:Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.”

Difficult Deals Class Subjects American Writer Difficult Subjects

Book:A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991

Source: A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991

“It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Made Different Character Would Be Able Effort Race Class Projects Empathy Racism Traditional Our Society Notable Obsessive Sectarianism Be Encouraged Different Races

Book:Screening history

Source: Screening history

“Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.”

Way Years Art Class Careers I Realized Best Way Enjoyed Artistic Tattoo Illustration Commercial Art Art Class

Author:William Webb

“I remember being in college and taking a class on classical music and getting a big laugh when I said very sincerely that I was not really into trained voices. Some of the greatest singers can transcend their technical perfection and still sound great.”

Said Stills Bigs Remember Sound Voice Class Laughing College Perfection Singers Sincerely Classical Music

Author:Ira Kaplan

“Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. It's a tough class, which makes me feel like I've really accomplished something. It's a great way to burn fat and lean out the body. An all-around win!”

Way Feels Has Beens Body Winning Energy Class Exercise Tough Fats Accomplished Sweat Spinning

Author:Alison Sweeney

“We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. A lot of rough stuff as well. What there is, too, is an awful lot of expressiveness and intelligence and originality down there. And a lot of thwarted intelligence.”

Thinking Wells Stuff Class Mets Incredibles Witty Awful Rough Originality Working Class

Author:Martin Amis

“I think that our reliance on dynasty is part of the problem here, because dynasty is inherently undemocratic. It's a very entitled thing to suggest that only one member of one family can save a country of 180 million people. It has to be about people who live in constituencies coming forward to represent them, not the sort of parachuted, elite class that comes in, wins elections and then leaves.”

People Thinking Country Problem Winning Class Millions Members Election Elites Entitled Reliance Dynasty

Author:Fatima Bhutto

“I'm working hard to be president of the United States.I'm running to change things, and I'm not going to be part of the political class in Washington, D.C. I have the skills to disrupt the old order and bring about a new culture.”

Hard States Running Political Order Culture President United Class United States Skills New Cultures

Author:Jeb Bush

“Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.”

People Years Interesting Class Media Like You Catholic Boring Old People Nun

Author:Lino Rulli

“There are a lot of things that make players really good coaches. Whether you've played in the NBA or not, there are certain things you have to master and be really good at. They just have to be gifted in these areas. You've got to be competent. Secondly, you've got to be able to communicate. You can have a picture in your mind on how to score but if you can't communicate it, if you can't teach it, what good is it? You've got to be brutally honest and be a man of strong character and then you've got to have class. They've got to respect you.”

Ifs Men Mind Character Able Certain Strong Class Teach Player Honest Masters Areas Communicate Coaches Score Nba Gifted Be A Man Competent Strong Character Brutally Honest Good Coaches

Author:Avery Johnson

“Of course I haven't seen it! I wouldn't look at anything of Kim Kardashian's. I have never seen that show. I just think the Kardashians are just so cheap! No class.”

Thinking Looks Shows Courses Class Havens Kim

Author:Brigid Berlin

“In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.”

People Real Acting Class Partners Being Real Acting Classes

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.”

Way Stories Fun Acting Class Audience Comedy Fronts Get Up Having Fun Telling Stories Acting Classes

Author:Gabrielle Dennis

“America is supposed to pride itself on freedom of religion, race, and class. It's something that is carried on from ignorance and territorialism. I don't know if it's a transcendental pre-colonial mentality but I don't see too many other races of people trippin' about who is coming in and coming out. I think it's primarily racism disguised as class wars.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows War America Race Class Ignorance Pride Racism Coming Out Mentality Transcendental Freedom Of Religion

Author:Myka 9

“In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation.”

Art War Philosophy Nations Social Class College Late Studios Vietnam Confusing Social Change Sweeping Art Class

Author:Stephen Beal

“A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the other side of the tracks. Both of those excuses couldn't be farther from the truth. I come from a family that has a lot of love for one another and I was raised in a middle to upper class neighborhood.”

People Thinking Home Order Sides Class Middle Broken Raised Track Excuse Neighborhood Addict Upper Class Broken Homes

Author:Jason Peter

“We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.”

Ifs Thinking Made Said Philosophy Home Kids School Father Simple Class Morning Wife Couple Safe Approach Workers Educated Spokes Feds Working Class Connotation Blokes

Author:Warren Mundine

“The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes in a scene (and) what motivates characters. When you bring a scene to class - as an actor with your scene partner - you have to do everything. There's no producer, set decorator or anything like that. You and you partner have to do everything and that's kind of like facing the blank page as a writer.”

Writing Kind Character Actors Acting Class Teach Scene Pages Training Partners Backgrounds Producers Stakes Blank Acting Classes Blank Pages Decorators

Author:Carol Higgins Clark

“I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting 101...In my classroom, the students get every ounce of encouragement and craft and anything I'm able to give them.We have some rules. We don't take the name of The Lord in vain. We don't use foul language when we mess up on camera...There's a climate of safety...They feel very protected.”

“The experience I had all those 40 years of working on Broadway and working on television, I bring it to students and I let them kind of drain me dry but they all feel at the end of the class that they are getting so much out of it. The students grow in my classroom because they feel safe. They don't feel like they're going to be yelled at.”

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Author:Patricia Mauceri

“I was one of those whose school report would always say, 'Could pay more attention.' I spent my time trying to be the centre of attention or the class joker instead of knuckling down. Far from the perfect student.”

Trying School Perfect Pay Attention Class Students My Time Reports Centre Centre Of Attention School Reports

Author:Suzanne Shaw

“I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what's possible in different social settings, and different settings of class designation as well.”

Want Wells Different Social Attention Class Audience Movement Possibility Boundaries Setting Settings Designation Trespassing

Author:Todd Haynes

“Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and they say, "I made it, I'm rich. But what the hell is my life for?"”

People Men Years Made Class Hell Rich Men And Women Made It Phenomenon Over 50 Equalizer

Author:Jacob Needleman

“Class is material consumed.”

Class Materials Consumed

Book:Lines from a Mined Mind (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Lines from a Mined Mind (Large Print 16pt)

“The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

Source: Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.”

People Together Class Middle Grew Grew Up Calm Tension Middle Class Working Class Suburbs

Author:JR

“The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.”

Ifs Has Beens Shows Brain Class Doubt Written Dog Cat Thirds Prize Cat And Dog

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

“The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements”

Ideas Political Social Class Conditions Revolution Scene Violent Conception Capitalist Socialist Dominant Working Class Shifting Social Class Social Conditions

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.”

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.”

Firsts Believe Said Feelings Given Pay Class Products Taste Benefits Projects Ugly Broke Tickets Underestimate Good Taste First Class Layout

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.”

Mind Ability Class Discipline Research

Author:Margaret Mead

“My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.”

Together Class Mum Cardio Kickboxing Cardiovascular Exercise

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.”

Ifs Wells Doe Action Certain Social Goal Class Clear Records Dangerous Policy Drug Abuse Historical Currents Technique Substance Reducing Substance Abuse Social Control Drug Policy

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.”

People Knows Said Use Kids Poor Class Rich Dangerous Substance Jail Marijuana Seventies Poor People Rich Kids

Author:Noam Chomsky

“My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.”

Want Feels Firsts Made Real Wanted Effort Acting Class Tree Scene Kissing Comfortable Partners Cute Baskets Kiss Me Snacks Picnics Acting Classes Picnic Baskets

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.”

Wanted Class Progress Middle Revolution Evolution Transformation Violent Dramatic Middle Class Victorian Cumulative History Of Life

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

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