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“I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.”

Knows Want Needs Giving Book Space Class Know How Fronts Give Me Space Shuttle

Author:Will Smith

“Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who gives you responsibility and mentorship; while traveling; while leading a cause, movement, or charity; while writing a novel or composing a poem or crafting a song; while interning, apprenticing, or volunteering; while playing a sport or immersing yourself in a language; while starting a business; and now, while watching a TED talk or taking a Khan Academy class.”

“Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.”

Mind Helping Lines Class Expression Masters Excellent Poetry Is Discovering Touchstones

Book:English Literature and Irish Politics

Source: English Literature and Irish Politics

“Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“When I was in Dutch and Italian football, a lot of people looked at Manchester United, and when they were asked who was the best player, a lot of them said Paul Scholes. Much of what he did looked simple, but actually it was quite hard. Invariably he controlled the ball instantly and passed it straight on, keeping the game moving. He made inch-perfect passes across the pitch; he saw the gaps and could play the ball through them. So it didn't surprise me that so many top-class international footballers recognized his quality.”

“To me, Paul Scholes was in a class of his own.”

Class Scholes Paul Scholes

Author:Wayne Rooney

“Scholes was probably the best English midfielder since Bobby Charlton. He was such a brilliant long passer that he could choose a hair on the head of any team-mate answering the call of nature at our training ground. Gary Neville once thought he had found refuge in a bush, but Scholesy found him from 40 yeards. He inflicted a similar long-range missile strike, once, on Peter Schmeichel, and was chased round the training ground for his impertinence. Scholesy would have made a first class-sniper.”

“It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.”

Want Doe Stills Play Natural Class Doubt Player No Doubt Tire Select Best Players Scholes Untouchables Paul Scholes

Author:Zinedine Zidane

“Scholesy is one of my favourite players of all time. He was a great professional who had everything and I used to love playing with him. You could give him the ball in any position, he would take one touch and you would know exactly what the next move would be. [ . . . ] He was magical, pure class.”

Knows Giving Would Be Moving Used Next Class Player Position Pure Balls All Time Favourite Used To Love Next Move

Author:Paul Gascoigne

“When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.”

People Wells Country School Reading President Wealth Class High School Caught Ruling Textbooks History Textbooks

Author:Utah Phillips

“It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.”

“I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.”

Firsts Looks May Class Directors Cruise First Class

Author:Art Buchwald

“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.”

“The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.”

Believe Humans Ideas Earth Challenges Human Beings Powerful Class Truth Is Victim Our Society Survivor Privileged

Author:Wendy McElroy

“Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understand, but a class) can ever learn. 'Be gentle with one another's efforts,' he often admonished us. 'Be kind and considerate with your criticism. Always remember that it's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.'”

Writing Kind Important Book Hard Remember Effort Class Taught Lessons Criticism Gentle Remembered Be Kind Good Book Taught Us Considerate Important Lessons Stanford

Author:Ken Kesey

“When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.”

Way Whole Speak Class Irritating Speak English

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.”

Soul Used Mother Class Teacher Wonderful Warm Theatre Paris Great Teacher

Author:Juliette Binoche

“The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.”

Firsts Important Different Government Left Forget Class Democracy Produce Important Things Excuse Socialism Ideology Productive Fascism Thieves Competing

Author:L. Neil Smith

“I finished high school, so now I'm planning to take a few classes in college when I'm not working.”

School Class College High School Finished Planning

Author:Megan Lee

“9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.”

People Thinking World Way Trying Firsts Two Reason Class Teaching Security Changed Towns University Inevitable Reason Why Agency 80s Continuity Harvard Grim Two Days Harvard University

Author:Hal Hartley

“It's very well known that the Republicans have problems with minorities. The Democrats have big problems with white people. Obama only got 39% of the vote. He only got 36% of the working-class white people.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.”

Want Whole Home White Pay Class Economic Gender Abortion Agendas Biology Voters Chemistry Working Class Affordability

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.”

“Message to the billionaire class: You can't have it all!”

Class Messages Billionaire

Book:Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in

Source: Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in

“The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the current elections. Their goal is not to strengthen the middle class, but continue the trend in which the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.”

Looks Age America Social Class Cutting Security Taxes Raises Congress Corporations Warfare Veteran Social Security Representing Medicare Class Warfare Goldman Sachs Eligibility

Author:Bernie Sanders

“This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. The top one-hundredth of 1 percent makes more than 40 percent of all campaign contributions. The billionaire class owns the political system and reaps the benefits from it.”

Looks Today Political Wealth Class Benefits Percent Bottom Campaigns Contribution Reap Billionaire Political Systems Oligarchy Campaign Contributions

Author:Bernie Sanders

“We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.”

“As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.”

Thinking Persons Dream Would Be Kids Jobs Stuff Parent Class Raised Finished Great Job Lower Class

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.”

Ifs Should May Helping School Spirit Class Teach Students Habit Should Have Helping Others Software Goodwill

Author:Richard Stallman

“Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class is now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy the candidate they want. And it is up to us to stand up and fight back. If we stand together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.”

“I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living.”

Firsts Guy Class Honest Like You Citizens Officials Good Guy American Citizens First Class

Author:Lucky Luciano

“I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.”

People Trying Important States Body Stuff Class Your Body Routine New Stuff

Author:Alison Sweeney

“A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.”

America Class Tvs Bigger Size Accurate

Author:Paul Fussell

“This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.”

Thinking Way I Can Hard Class Working Class Jolly

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.”

Want Class Morning Paper Mark Distinction Papers Engels Class Distinction

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department.”

Ifs World Looks Eye Force Class Darkness Taken Red Department Possessed Flash Blazing World Class Red Eye

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.”

People Class Ignorance Profit Oppression Capitalist Degradation Clergy

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.”

Heart Political Class Activism

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful check or constraint. No institution with any power disputes this. To the contrary, the only ones which exert real influence - Congress, the courts, the establishment media, the plutocratic class - clearly favor its continuation and only think about how further to enable it.”

“The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.”

Thinking Children Art Action Lost Class Wealthy Our Actions Spoiled Art And Science Spoiled Children Overindulgence

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.”

People Looks Has Beens School Desire Class Middle Achieve Members Daughter Advantage Revolutionary Kitchen Middle Class Good School Upper Middle Class Kitchen Sinks

Author:Rebecca West

“Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.”

Firsts School Class Century Students Lessons Deserve Appropriate Sunday 21st Century Ohio First Class Sunday School

Author:Barry W. Lynn

“Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.”

Country Whole Government Lasts Poor Party Pay Class Week Middle Bills Determine Middle Class Lunch Senate Free Lunch

Author:Warren Buffett

“Teaching the pagan religion of evolutionism is a waste of valuable class time and textbook space. It is also one of the reasons American kids don't test as well in science as kids in other parts of the world.”

World Wells Reason Kids Space Class Teaching Waste Tests Valuable Pagan Textbooks

Author:Kent Hovind

“The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.”

“I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.”

Kids School Christian Class High School Great Times Had A Great Time

Author:Odette Annable

“Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.”

Dies Leader Class Middle Middle Class Labour Establishment

Book:Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67

Source: Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67

“Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become.”

Persons Poor Class Rich Middle Middle Class Up To You Rich Person

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

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