Quotes with working-class

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  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Bobby Farrelly It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Will Rogers It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bob Ainsworth It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Bobby Moynihan It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • J. Willard Marriott It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
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  • Bradley Whitford John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Billy Porter Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Aaliyah Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Margaret Mitchell Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Bill Ayers Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Bryan Robson Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Legacy code often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
    FAQ: What is legacy code?
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • George H.W. Bush Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • Bernie Sanders Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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