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“The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.”

Ifs World Years Has Beens Lasts Middle Ten Built Size East Reputation Desert Middle East San Francisco Vegas Venice Dubai

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.”

Middle Century Particular Rhythm

Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.”

Knows Needs Shows America Class Middle Son Convinced Middle Class

Author:Redd Foxx

“If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.”

Ifs Thinking Shows America Realizing Doubt Middle Republican Raises Conservative Radio Like Me Chinese Host Korea Romney Putin North Korea Intimidated Talk Shows Middle America

Author:Bryan Fischer

“Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.”

“This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire and fulfillment, frustration, but at least once in a while you can go to Burger King.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.”

Powerful Class Middle Computer Musician Profession Journalist Middle Class Canaries

Author:Jaron Lanier

“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.”

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Author:Scarlett Thomas

“Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.”

Years Today America Suffering Choices Class Middle Republican Middle Class Allies Legislation Colleagues Repealing

Author:Ellen Tauscher

“When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.”

Wells School Teacher Middle Hated Middle School

Author:Miles Teller

“The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.”

Ifs Want Shows Class Watches Laughing Comedy Middle Bills Middle Class Midwest Unwind Great Family Middle Class Family

Author:Nancy Travis

“There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.”

Attention Cutting Middle Conversation Come Up Dinner Good Friend Adjusting

Author:Verne Troyer

“Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.”

Thinking Wells Accepting Middle Changed Bottom Size Turning 50

Author:Carol Vorderman

“In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the US and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.”

World Able Responsibility Middle Achieve Capable Europe East Middle East Taking Responsibility

Author:Dominique de Villepin

“Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.”

Country Hours Middle Car Miles Officers Thick Middle Of The Road Wild Ride

Author:Amy Weber

“I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Firsts Mean Grows Differences Middle Qualitative

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.”

Want Wells Children Would Be Running Kids School Lasts Middle Dad Finished Hey My Children Upset Weekend Packs Embarrassed Fifth Your Dad

Author:Dan Wheldon

“The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.”

Ifs Knows I Can Two Enough Able Turns Next Race Know How Middle Pure Starting Entertainment Honestly Get Up Packs Championship Will Power Grids Latches

Author:Dan Wheldon

“One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.”

Knows Different Ends Middle Tvs Series Great Things Discovering Episodes Unfolding Tv Series

Author:Dylan Walsh

“I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.”

Kind Ends Play Middle Theater Scripts Hospitals Opera Spontaneous Toes 80s Soap Soap Operas Be Spontaneous General Hospital

Author:Jack Wagner

“Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.”

Mean Littles Stills Important Fighting Middle Late Terrorist Too Late Als Al Qaeda Terrorist Attacks Sept 11

Author:John Yoo

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

Children Two School Together Mother Fighting Father Levels Class Middle Brother Grew Grew Up My Family Seven Grades Middle Class Middle Class Family Two Sisters

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.”

Thinking Knows Men Kind Able America Felt Perfect Attention Records Middle Thirds Paid Towns Aim Size Access Genre Fake Hipster Nashville

Author:Jack White

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.”

Ifs World Writing Ends Dream Happens Able Sleep Morning Gone Middle Bed Function Wake Up Awake Shallow Surroundings Session

Author:Stephen King

“If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.”

Ifs Should Firsts Jobs Class Middle Cost Labor Middle Class Why Not Volunteer Ceo

Author:Lou Dobbs

“I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.”

Feels Sometimes Night Next Morning Middle Wake Up Insomnia Middle Of The Night Time Love Abomination Sometimes Love Hyde Mr Hyde

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.”

Christian Walks Poor Middle Christian Inspirational Places To Live Middle Of The Road

Author:Vance Havner

“I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.”

Kind School Stuff Sports Middle Involved Drama My Friends Dancing Theatre Things To Do Middle School Cool Things Playing Sports

Author:Kara Lindsay

“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

“I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.”

People Middle Position Majority Confused Uncertain

Author:Al Franken

“A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.”

Wells Kind Middle Rocks All Kinds Performers Eastern Well Rounded

Author:Patti LuPone

“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

“And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene.”

Heart Happens Felt Middle My Heart Scene Overwhelming

Author:Sheryl Lee

“I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.”

People Believe America I Believe Imagine Middle Hollywood Middle America

Author:Steven Levitan

“My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.”

School Middle Tomorrow High School Horrible Awful Middle School School Experience

Author:Zachary Levi

“When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!”

Children Two Night Sleep Morning Middle Mom Paint Get Up Middle Of The Night

Author:Julie Mehretu

“We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.”

People Thinking Games Grows Watches Doubt Middle Television Football Stores Survivor Inches Episodes Groceries Grocery Stores Wireless Football Game

Author:Leslie Moonves

“The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.”

World Matter Cities Growing Middle Internet Speed Access Where You Are Highways Getting High Deserted High Speed Broadband Ubiquity Internet Access

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“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

“The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.”

Ifs Has Beens Church Middle Century Built Plenty Decline Secular Mantras Demise Bursting 18th Century

Author:N. T. Wright

“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

“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.”

“Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.”

Inspiration Night Middle Middle Of The Night

Author:Rod Stewart

“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.”

People I Can Imagine Middle Objects Appreciate Photographer Rectangles

Author:William Eggleston

“Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.””

Thinking Years Lasts Stuff Middle Listening Rap Relate Last Year Irrelevant Opulence

Author:Lorde

“Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]”

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