Quotes with upper-middle-class

Quotes 401 till 419 of 419.

  • Alexander Haig You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Carrie Fisher You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Arthur Laffer You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Caleb Deschanel You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Ovid You will go most safely in the middle.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Bill Gates You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong...
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Billy Joe Saunders You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Roger Vadim Youth has become a class.
    Roger Vadim
    French film director (1928 - 2000)
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  • Carolyn Wells Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Bill Vaughan Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
    Published in Oregonian newspaper on 31 December 1958, in the Column of Vaughan
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Donald Trump I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.
    Speech Sioux Center, Iowa, januari 2016
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Bill Hader My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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