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“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.”

“The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the buyability of the regional press. Now we, too, have hired that clapped-out old floozy, Miss Rosie Scenario, and sent her whoring through the streets.”

Wells Made Use Streets Middle Missing Figures Understood Presses East Familiar Journalist Regimes Middle East Saddam Hussein Scenarios Rosie

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.”

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Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.”

People Mean Political Culture Social Goal Middle Essentials Elements Diversity Ultimate East Liberation Middle East Ultimate Goal North Africa

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.”

Next Sports Space Middle Rocks Taught Empty Intuition Familiar Atoms Crystals Stadiums Taught Us Illustration Empty Space Nucleus

Author:Richard Dawkins

“As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.”

World Dream White Class Middle Males Middle Class Invites Viewers Underdog

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“On a train, why do I always end up sitting next to the woman who's eating the individual fruit pie by sucking the filling out through the hole in the middle?”

Ends Next Individual Middle Eating Sitting Train Fruit Holes Pie Filling

Author:Victoria Wood

“Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'”

Source: Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

“Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.”

Made Bigs Careers Progress Failing Middle Position Motherhood Enormous Conclusion Executives Leap Senior Ladders Roadblock

Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“As the planet wobbles, once every 26,000 years we visually align with the center of the galaxy. But it's such a slow movement that as we enter the galactic equator (The band of stars in the sky - The Milky Way), it takes 18 years to get to the middle of it, and another 18 to exit it. So astronomically, "The 2012 experience" is a 36 year alignment process, not something that happens on Dec 21, 2012.”

Way Years Happens Stars Process Sky Middle Movement Planets Band Galaxy Exit Alignment Milky Way Stars In The Sky Equator

Author:Lee Carroll

“I've never planned ahead.I just sort of go through life checking the menu of three meals that day. I never worry about tomorrow. It's only since I've gotten older that I've begun to wonder about time running out. Is it sufficient unto itself that I don't plan? Because maybe next Thursday won't come one day. And then, I'm concerned about that. But that's not uniquely the writer's concern, that's the concern of every middle-aged man who looks in the mirror.”

Men Looks Running Three Next Wonder Worry Plans Middle Tomorrow One Day Concern Concerned Mirrors Sufficient Meals Middle Aged Menus Thursday Time Running Out

Author:Rod Serling

“A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.”

Song Class Boys Middle Adventure Materials Meetings Wide London Queens Middle Class Drag Drag Queen Transvestites

Author:Marc Almond

“I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just very airy. And my classical teachers were just so frustrated with me because I would have these deep, low notes that were really strong, and the higher register was strong, but right in that middle area, it was really hard. It was like a passage. And many singers go through this and work it out. But I realized in jazz, I could just take advantage of that and take advantage of having a voice that was very different in different areas.”

Different Hard Strong Voice Teacher Air Middle Higher Lows Advantage Areas Jazz Notes Singers I Realized Holes Working It Passages Frustrated Register Airy

Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant

“I talked with people starting up in the middle of the recession and employees, and supplies and office space were cheap. As far as companies that are already in existence, many became more creative with how they spent their money. A lot of them stopped wasting money that they didn't know they were wasting after they looked hard at their businesses. Some had to change business models because of the economy. Their market didn't exist or wasn't as big anymore.”

People Knows Hard Bigs Space Existence Company Economy Creative Middle Office Models Starting Employee Supplies Recessions Business Models Starting Up Office Space Wasting Money

Author:JJ Ramberg

“When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be reasonable, middle-aged guys drinking organic tea talking about semiotics.”

Guy Talking Middle Hair Beats Drinking Supposed To Be Tea Reasonable Umbrella Middle Aged Paparazzi Semiotics

Author:Moby

“In the past I've had public feuds with people, and I have really not benefited from any of them. The feud with Eminem did kind of torpedo my career in the United States, but it also introduced me to Middle America in a way I never could have conceived of.”

People Way Kind States America Past United Careers United States Middle Feuds Middle America Torpedoes

Author:Moby

“The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was either through TV, music, movies or hopping in and out when I did shows. You can't just get the US through being in Miami, LA and New York. Middle America is the place to understand real America.”

Trying Important Real Country Shows America Culture Middle New York Tvs Important Things Miami Hopping Middle America

Author:Dizzee Rascal

“I'm a little old-fashioned - I like it when the man opens the door and I like it when a man pays for me. I particularly like it when they pay for dinner or whatever, because I've pretty much done the opposite, but for the exception of James [Taylor], where we split everything down the middle. I've been the larger money earner in practically all of my relationships. There's equality and there are positive differences, which are complimentary.”

Men Littles Done Differences Pay Doors Middle He Man Opposites Dinner Exception Splits Old Fashioned

Author:Carly Simon

“Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.”

Giving Writing Trying Wanted Middle Rocks Giving Up Moved Wine Miles Hills France Something New Cocaine Crumbling Middle Of Nowhere Bordeaux

Author:Sylvie Simmons

“We need a leader who won't be silent - as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been - as millions of Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East.”

Needs Has Beens Christian Leader Millions Middle Silent Clinton East Barack Middle East Persecuted

Author:Carly Fiorina

“As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.”

Humans America President Rights Middle Tests Human Rights China East Russia Our Time Allies Middle East Signals Adversaries

Author:Carly Fiorina

“The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.”

Men Firsts Young Language Wife Middle My Wife Young Man Italian

Author:Clive James

“Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.”

Different Culture Black Interesting Cities Growing Up Growing Middle Eastern Jersey Different Cultures Jersey City

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I've very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out, and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.”

Ifs World Firsts Ends Night Dies Middle Cry Emotional My Friends Breakup Scream End Of The World Middle Of The Night

Author:Selena Gomez

“When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, "Wow!" When nothing's going on, that's when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey.”

Journey Middle Appreciate Wow Absolutely Nothing

Author:Tyler Perry

“Austin - it's a stimulating center. In this conversation, the very first two questions were talking about my kind of wanderlust and my adventures. Some people at my time in life travel forever. I don't know whether it's the British or the Australians - whoever it is, you can kind of stagger into some sort of far-off bastion in the middle of nowhere, and you'll find someone from Britain or someone from Australia or maybe an American.”

People Knows Firsts Kind Two Talking Forever Middle Adventure Conversation British My Time Britain Australia Austin Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Robert Plant

“We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.”

Moments Fighting Walks Middle Car Driving Dramatic Baths Smack

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people interrupt themselves in the middle of some story they're telling me to say, "You know you can't write about this."”

People Knows Want Writing Stories Eye Middle Materials Troll

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.”

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Author:Ben E. King

“Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.”

Thinking Reality Kids Young Race Growing Up Growing Middle Mixed Race

Author:Matt de la Pena

“I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very good at writing poetry. I mean, the distillation, I think, is hard for me, but I love poetry.”

Thinking Writing Mean Hard School Middle College High School Very Good Love Poetry Middle School Writing Poetry Distillation

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality. What we are giving poor kids now in early childhood is nothing like what we are giving middle-class kids in most places.”

Giving Kids Poor Quality Class Clear Childhood Middle New York Students Research Program Middle Class High Quality Early Childhood

Author:Pedro Noguera

“Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.”

Thinking Play Bigs Kids Ability Poor Class Childhood Middle Huge Program Patterns Obstacles Middle Class Segregation Guise Early Childhood Socialization Regimentation

Author:Pedro Noguera

“Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.”

Reality Beautiful Middle Comment Saddest Cinematic Middle Ground

Author:Zack Snyder

“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.”

People Thinking Needs Believe Age Fall Known Middle Keys Habit Truth Is Disease Normal Approach Mindfulness Wake Up Everyday Patterns Falling Apart Middle Ages Portal Midlife

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.”

Writing Long I Can Class Modern Middle Periods Research Middle Class Londoners Research And Writing

Author:Stef Penney

“One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.”

Age Five Sadness Middle Adventure Twenties Middle Ages Twenty Five

Author:Jon Weisman

“Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are you speaking for? Who will be the next Fannie Lou Hamer? If not you or someone you know, then who?”

Ifs Knows Next Class Issues Rights Middle Vote Voting Middle Class Working Class Right To Vote Marriage Equality

Author:Darryl Pinckney

“One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on the pavement. I kind of jumped over it. And then two days later I woke up in the middle of the night with a character running, jumping over butterflies on the streets of Nairobi. After that, I followed the story. The story wrote itself.”

“There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?”

Social Cities Violence Middle Accomplish East Remarkable Massive Chicago Fewer Middle East Engineering Feats Midwest Social Engineering

Author:Max Blumenthal

“I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.”

People Trying Kind Matter Together Rooms Middle Color No Matter What

Author:Valerie June

“There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.”

Kind Certain Middle Bats Tribes Delicacy

Author:Lily King

“When I think about the folks who are out there at home tonight watching... They know that this country is not respected around the world anymore. They know that this country is pushing the middle class, the hardworking taxpayers, backwards, and they saw a president who doesn't understand their pain, and doesn't have any plan for getting away from it.”

Thinking Knows World Country Home Pain President Class Saws Plans Middle Folks Around The World Middle Class Tonight Pushing Get Away Backwards Taxpayers Hardworking

Author:Chris Christie

“I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems.”

Thinking Wells Seems Film Interest Deals Issues Middle Islam East Contemporary Iran Construction Middle East

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.”

People Thinking Feels Wanted Middle Reader Sitting My Friends Tables Everyday Average Hearing Dinner East Curious Middle East Everyday Life Texture Sitting Around Best Place Dinner Table

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when it comes to the Middle East, and especially the Arab world, simply depicting people as human beings is the most political thing you can do.”

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Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.”

World Mean Middle Essentials Everyday East Bread Dependent Middle East Grain Everyday Life Wheat Fertile Cultivation Egyptian Meaning Life Predicaments Staples Crescent

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Tunisia. Egypt is the number-one importer of wheat in the entire world. Tunisia leads the entire world in per capita wheat consumption. So it's no wonder that the revolutions began with Tunisians waving baguettes in the streets and Egyptians wearing helmets made of bread.”

“The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.”

World Two Past Fall Middle Rose Rate East Decades Regions Middle East Over The Past Malnutrition Sub Saharan Africa

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People rebelled and poured into Tahrir Square, shouting slogans against the government just like they did earlier this year. Sadat learned his lesson and kept bread subsidies in place, and so did a host of other Middle Eastern dictators - many of whom were propped up for years by the West, partly through subsidized American wheat.”

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Author:Annia Ciezadlo

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