Quotes with working-class

Quotes 141 till 160 of 591.

  • Clarence Darrow I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Arne Jacobsen I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Anne Perry I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Hybels I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • David Copperfield I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Gore Vidal I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Willis I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Noam Chomsky I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Danny Mcgoorty I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
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  • George Bernard Shaw I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Oldfield I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Alan Cumming I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
    Alan Cumming
    Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, and activist (1965 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Billie Holiday I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Stephen Hawking I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
    The Guardian (15 May 2011)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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