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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
I knew coming into this to fight that this was going to be a world class fight, but I knew he didn't have the skills to beat me.
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.
World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.
I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.
I like the Klitschko boys, I think they're in a class of their own. I like Manny Pacquiao. All the super-middleweights are great.
At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.
In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.
I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.
I am the kind of dude that would go to your seventh grade class and sit at the back of the classroom and stare at all your butts.
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.
Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.
I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.
Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.
Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.
I love wearing black, especially leather or even faux leather! It just adds edge and a sense of class and maturity to your outfit!
My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.
the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.
A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.
I was actually very fortunate. I think I was actually the only kid in my class at one stage that actually had a father in the home.
The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.
I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.
I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.
Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.
In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'A Simple Favor' were each a master class in filmmaking, and I had so much fun working with all my costars.
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.