Quotes with working-class

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  • Annie Leibovitz I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Asa Gray I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Adnan Pachachi I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • John Keats I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Arianna Huffington I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • J. K. Rowling I think you're working and learning until you die.
    J. K. Rowling
    British novelist, screenwriter, and producer (1965 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Beck I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
    Rolling Stone magazine, 1996
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Orson Welles I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Adam Clayton I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Hawking I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Brock Lesnar I wasn't happy at the career I was at and wanted to try something else, and so I tried fighting, and it's working out pretty well. I set my own schedule; I have my own training facilities. I'm not traveling as much, and I'm at home every night.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Barack Obama I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
    Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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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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  • Alan Alda I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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