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Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
When you go back and listen to 30 years of Tom Petty records, they are pretty consistent. I love that.
If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.
It's not that I was not getting offers but I don't want to do petty and insignificant roles again and again.
Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
There is more to life than saas bahu issues with women being portrayed as petty characters and their own worst enemies.
I mean, sometimes it's really good to listen to something like Tom Petty, that's purely blissed out. But that's not me.
I have two little boys, and I want them to feel like this is the nation that I know. That this is the nation that isn't petty.
For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.
I love Tom Petty the way a lot of people love him. He's got so many amazing songs, and you know them by heart. They're classics.
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.
The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff.
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.
When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Physically helping me with advice and direction and a job was Richard Petty. He did a lot for me at a young age, when I needed help and direction.
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
When you're a federal agent you don't get to arrest people for like $5.00 petty crimes or anything like that, they'll throw you right out of there.
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.
As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Petty thievery is a more profitable job than pool hustling, which it resembles, requires far less talent and training, and is equally devoid of promise.
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty stuff of life stops mattering.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were really great. I saw them live in the '90s; they were really, really good. The music is great, and the musicians are amazing.
People throughout time have grieved, have fallen in love, have fallen out of love. We are sometimes petty and sometimes heroic, and we have been that way forever.
I'm not really good at worrying. I think I get that from my pops. He can be in some really dire straights and be a real optimist, so I don't sweat the petty stuff.
Please hug your parents while you have them, tell your children how much you love them every second of the day, and don't let the petty things in life separate you.