I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.
~By Jessica Biel ~
So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!
~By Susie Bright ~
I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
~By Victoria Abril ~
I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
~By Natalie Portman ~
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.
~By Robert Welch ~
My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.
~By Frances Power Cobbe ~
Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
~By John Bates Clark ~
I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.
~By Todd Barry ~
I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.
~By William Lyons ~
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
~By Major Taylor ~
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.
~By William Whewell ~
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
~By Bob Riley ~
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
~By Karl Liebknecht ~
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
~By Erno Rubik ~
Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
~By A. A. Milne ~
I had had a classical education prior to that.
~By Skitch Henderson ~
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
~By Katharine Whitehorn ~
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
~By Lorna Luft ~
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
~By Randy West ~
I make films about working class people.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.
~By James Lipton ~
We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
~By Donna Tartt ~
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
~By Larry Wall ~
I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
~By Greg Kinnear ~
People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.
~By Tom Kenny ~
The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
~By Dora Russell ~
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
~By Finley Peter Dunne ~
I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.
~By Debra Wilson ~
I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.
~By Nicole Richie ~
It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.
~By Don Adams ~
The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.
~By Caroline Nichols Churchill ~
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
~By Rosa Parks ~
All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
~By Rory Bremner ~
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.
~By Rick Larsen ~
I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.
~By Jason Dohring ~
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
~By Gunther Grass ~
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
~By Alexander McQueen ~
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
~By James Hillman ~
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
~By Malcolm Arnold ~
I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.
~By Peter Wright ~
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
~By Denzel Washington ~
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.
~By Carrot Top ~
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
~By Simone Weil ~
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
~By Coco Chanel ~
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
~By Roger Ebert ~
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?
~By Herman Gorter ~
All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.
~By Johnny Weissmuller ~
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.
~By Glenn Danzig ~
I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
~By Natalie Portman ~
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
~By E. M. Forster ~
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
~By Jack Hanna ~
The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.
~By George Thorogood ~
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
~By Harvey Korman ~
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
~By John Marshall Harlan ~
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
~By Phil Lesh ~
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
~By Herb Alpert ~
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.
~By Jennifer Garner ~
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.
~By Jim Cramer ~
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~
I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.
~By David Ginola ~
The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
~By David Davis ~
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
~By Robertson Davies ~
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.
~By Robert Fortune ~
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
I class myself as a manual laborer.
~By Theodore White ~
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
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