Quotes with middle-class

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  • Bria Skonberg My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Ben Affleck My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Brad Schneider My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.
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  • Aeschylus Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • W. H. Auden No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ronald Reagan No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Barry Ritholtz No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Anne Tyler None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney!
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Leon Edel Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
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  • Richard Nixon Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream - if it is intended that you stay there.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Caroline Glick One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serves as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel.
    Reprinted in Live from NYs 92nd Street Y continues. Vail Daily. October 7, 2007.
    Caroline Glick
    American-born Israeli columnist, journalist and author
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  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bobby Schilling One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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