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Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.
In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.
I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.
Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn
We need policies that will benefit the middle class because you will not have a strong society without a strong middle class, fundamentally.
The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
And if we truly want a strong and secure middle class, we must restore the ability of labor unions to organize and represent working people.
We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
The reality is the stakes are very high. If your industry is targeted or your company is sued in a class action, your legal costs will soar.
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.
They used to talk about it in shop class, say, 'That kid right there can sing,' and I was going, like, 'I wonder who they're talking about?'
I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.
The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.
The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.
Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.
I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.
I think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.
There's a ton of stuff we can do to help the economy and help the American people, and the aspirational working class of the American people.
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.
I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.
I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
I started dance class when I was a little kid, and then, when I turned 11, I started taking vocal lessons, guitar lessons, and piano lessons.
I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.
An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.