Quotes 61 till 80 of 246.
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Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
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I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
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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.
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I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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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.
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I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
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I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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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.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
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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 -
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.'
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I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
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I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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