Quotes with working-class

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  • Bill Bryson My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I'm at with my career and where I'm at as an athlete. I'm somewhat happy, but never satisfied.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • B. B. King My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Boo Weekley My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Ben Affleck My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Brad Schneider My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.
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  • Johnny Carson My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bob McDonnell My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Bill Nye NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Lily Tomlin Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • W. H. Auden No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Gloria Steinem No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Kofi Annan No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.
    (2006)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Peace Pilgrim No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Barry Ritholtz No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bob Uecker Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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