Quotes with middle-class

Quotes 321 till 340 of 402.

  • Boris Johnson There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
    Face it: its all your own fat fault, Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Callum Keith Rennie There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • James Burnham There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power.
    The Machiavellians p. 280
    James Burnham
    American philosopher and political theorist (1905 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Erica Jong There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • H. Rap Brown There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Barry Humphries There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • H. Rap Brown They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Bob Moses This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg from a stone that the builders rejected.
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  • Bernard Goldberg This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
    Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Barry Williams Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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  • Oscar Wilde To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Blac Chyna Tyga takes King to school, I take him to school - we pretty much split our time with him down the middle. So, co-parenting isn't bad at all with Tyga.
    Blac Chyna
    American model, socialite and entrepreneur (1988 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bruce Lee Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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