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“We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.”

People Ends Home Class Middle Protection Middle Class Permit Working Class

Author:Alexis Tsipras

“I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.”

Ifs Knows Believe Stills Feelings Values Class Losing Working Class Unfamiliar I Still Believe Losing Everything

Author:John Travolta

“It doesn't make sense. [Republicans are] not for us. You're not for my values. We're working class people mostly and blue collar. We're your cops, we're your firemen, we're your carpenters and the things we need - we need to protect our unions, we need to protect our Medicare, we need to protect the working class person.”

People Needs Persons Values Class Republican Protect Blue Unions Make Sense Cop Working Class Medicare Collars Carpenter Blue Collar Fireman

Author:John Leguizamo

“I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.”

Shows Next Class Grew One Day Grew Up Great Things Working Class Next Day Show Business Glamorous Business Family

Author:Sally Field

“But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.”

“Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.”

Children Stills Home Work Attention Class Hero Quiet Dignity Coming Home Receiving Solitary Working Class Working Class Hero

Author:Armstrong Williams

“I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.”

Thinking Seems Class Working Class Posh

Author:Danny Dyer

“I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.”

People Knows Feels Easy Born Class Support Emotional Mets Wealthy Load Working Class No Money Easy Life Emotional Support

Author:Paloma Faith

“My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.”

Way Parent Class Grew Grew Up Fortune Working Class Better Me

Author:Graham Norton

“I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.”

People Feels Trying Class Soccer Sympathy Tickets Working Class Salary Lad

Author:Alex Ferguson

“I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.”

Men Kind Film Class Gay Pursuit All Kinds Working Class Gay Men Snooker

Author:Mark Gatiss

“I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.”

People Knows Feels Writing Kind Community Class Grew Grew Up Working Class

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.”

People Thinking Way Certain Parent Class Working Class Narrow-minded

Author:Toby Stephens

“There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.”

Strong Poor Class Rich Weak Miserable Wicked Idle Working Class Idleness Rich And Poor

Book:Ruskin's Works

Source: Ruskin's Works

“There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.”

“Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.”

Giving Form Politics Class Bases Charity Permanent Lazy Expenses Idle Working Class Administrative

Book:Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle And Dependent Class of Society?

Source: Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle And Dependent Class of Society?

“Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.”

Values Politics Lost Views Class Conversation Court Rely Voters Working Class

Author:David Brooks

“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”

People Believe President Class Cases Democracy Society Rulers Working Class Aristocracy

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty, especially farmers, working-class people, and the very poor.”

People World States Suffering Poor Class Poverty Jew Deceit Farmers Unfortunate Working Class Monopoly Usury

Author:Pope Clement VIII

“To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.”

Way Class Middle Creatures Connections Feminist Mysterious Abstract Middle Class Solidarity Working Class

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.”

Ifs Character Remember Certain Three Asks Class Reader Ordinary Crosses Bills Representatives Working Class Sections Dickens Midwife Burglars Valet

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“I came from a real working-class show business family.”

Real Shows Class Working Class Show Business Business Family

Author:Sally Field

“In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.”

America Class Hero England Working Class Policemen Traitor Working Class Hero

Author:Martin Amis

“I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.”

Self Class Tradition Seeking Working Class 1960s Self Education

Author:Ken Livingstone

“There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community”

Has Beens Community Class Hero Heroism Working Class

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.”

Grows Class Growing Up Canada Working Class Skinny Underdog Montreal

Author:Jay Baruchel

“Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.”

Looks Hard Kids Today Parent Attitude Class Foundation Working Class Leeds

Author:Melanie Brown

“Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.”

“In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.”

Film Class England Working Class Aristocracy

Author:Nigel Cole

“In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.”

Ifs Long Hard States Born Class Rich Middle Hard Work Britain Middle Class Aspire Working Class

Author:Nigel Cole

“I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.”

Play Able Remember Girl Sound Class Roles Havens Working Class Remember When Like Something

Author:Linda Cardellini

“I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.”

People Has Beens Past Class My Family Backgrounds Working Class Upstairs Posh

Author:Michelle Dockery

“I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.”

Play Wanted Chance Vision Class Blood Mom Offers Balls Working Class Veins Over The Top

Author:Michelle Forbes

“I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.”

Littles Deals Class Chicago Swear Working Class Mike Pittsburgh

Author:Billy Gardell

“I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.”

Church Class Teaching Taught College Raised Abortion Working Class Scholarship Baptists

Author:Dick Gephardt

“I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.”

Class Products Drug Bottom Glasses Alcohol Working Class Floats Drugs And Alcohol Juvenile

Author:Elton John

“I make films about working class people.”

People Film Class Working Class

Author:Taylor Hackford

“I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.”

Father Class Backgrounds Working Class Coal Mining Miners Coal Miners Coal Mining

Author:Tom Jones

“I'm a working class lad.”

Class Working Class Lad

Author:Rob James-Collier

“I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.”

Thinking Feels Wells Looks I Can House Class Middle Dad My Dad Ties Middle Class Working Class Presenting Tidy Printer Presenting Yourself

Author:Gary Kemp

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