Quotes with working-class

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  • Barbara Mikulski Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Lauren People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
    Ralph Lauren
    American designer and entrepreneur (1939 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' - to work for and hope for.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Brian Friel People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
    Brian Friel
    Irish playwright (1929 - 2015)
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  • Gloria Steinem Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Carl I. Hagen Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.
    About state officials Speech at the Progress Party national convention o
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bill Richardson President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Armstrong Williams Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Al McGuire Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
    Al McGuire
    American basketball coach and broadcaster (1928 - 2001)
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  • Bill Burr Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Benedict Wong Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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