Quotes with class

Quotes 61 till 80 of 229.

  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Noam Chomsky I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Asa Gray I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Adnan Pachachi I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • John Keats I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Adam Clayton I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Hawking I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Barack Obama I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
    Source: Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Rosenblat I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Rosa Parks I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Anne Tyler I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Beth Ditto I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Beatrice Webb If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation... why should you be frightened?
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Betty Friedan If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. This is female chauvinism. Friedan, Betty. 1998.
    Source: It Changed My Life: Writings on the Womens Movement
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Betty Carter If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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