Quotes with third-class

Quotes 121 till 140 of 352.

  • 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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  • Beck I'm not good at the protocols of dating. I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were dating-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
    Jane magazine, April 2000
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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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.
    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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  • Caitlin Doughty If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Umberto Eco If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Theresa May If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Winston Churchill If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Epictetus If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Angela Davis In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Horace Benchley In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
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  • Cam Newton In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Barack Obama In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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