Quotes with upper-middle-class

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  • Barbara Rosenblat 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.'
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • 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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  • Busy Philipps I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Jonathan Katz I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.
    Jonathan Katz
    American actor (1946 - )
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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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  • Anthony Holden I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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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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  • Bryan Greenberg If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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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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  • Adam Walinsky If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown.
    Adam Walinsky
    American Lawyer, Speechwriter (1937 - )
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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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  • Alexander Pope If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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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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