Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability. ~By Franklin Knight Lane ~
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI. ~By Bob Graham ~
Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care. ~By Charles Schumer ~
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ~By Karl Marx ~
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters. ~By Sean Bean ~
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox. ~By Tom Selleck ~
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard. ~By Paul Westerberg ~
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. ~By Steig Larsson ~
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. ~By Henry Miller ~
Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros. ~By Rebecca Lobo ~
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. ~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known. ~By Gerry Beckley ~
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock. ~By Mick Mars ~
Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. ~By John Marshall Harlan ~
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia. ~By Jack Schwartz ~
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business. ~By Norm Coleman ~
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. ~By Paul Fussell ~
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. ~By John McGahern ~
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms. ~By Chuck Norris ~
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance. ~By Arianna Huffington ~
I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things. ~By Vince Vaughn ~
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 ~
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ~By Stephen Leacock ~
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. ~By Cyril Connolly ~
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. ~By Mike Figgis ~
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. ~By Barack Obama ~
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset. ~By Mortimer Zuckerman ~
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. ~By John Ruskin ~
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 ~
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right. ~By Elia Kazan ~
I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet. ~By Minnie Driver ~
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing. ~By Catherine Deneuve ~
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 ~
The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been. ~By Al Lewis ~
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. ~By Margaret Sanger ~
Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible. ~By Shia LaBeouf ~
Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training. ~By Harrison Salisbury ~
I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids. ~By Alison Moyet ~
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude. ~By Shane Warne ~
Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity. ~By George Thorogood ~
I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient. ~By Kristi Noem ~
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. ~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature. ~By Victor Salva ~
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 ~
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world. ~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that. ~By George Thorogood ~
If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class. ~By Ray Floyd ~
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. ~By Ernest Mandel ~
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. ~By Harold Bloom ~
Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting. ~By Swoosie Kurtz ~
The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief. ~By Dick Morris ~
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ~By W. H. Auden ~
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none. ~By Anthony Weiner ~
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ~By Aristotle ~
The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste. ~By Franz Beckenbauer ~
I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room. ~By James Denton ~
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. ~By Alan Price ~
I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show. ~By Natalie Portman ~
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. ~By Irving Babbitt ~
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America. ~By Paul Robeson ~
Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. ~By Juan Cole ~
This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted. ~By Marie Windsor ~
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. ~By T. S. Eliot ~
There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet. ~By Mitchell Baker ~
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it. ~By Colin Greenwood ~
We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking. ~By Roger Ebert ~
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ~By Dean Acheson ~
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. ~By James Earl Jones ~
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens. ~By Dora Russell ~
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working. ~By Peter Sellers ~
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ~By William H. Seward ~
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. ~By James MacGregor Burns ~
I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it. ~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. ~By Bob Beauprez ~
I started taking acting classes when I was twelve. ~By Lindsay Wagner ~
The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection. ~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education. ~By George Miller ~
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that. ~By Ed Miliband ~
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing. ~By Suzanne Farrell ~
I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time. ~By Kim Basinger ~
They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken. ~By Joe Mantegna ~
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys. ~By Faye Dunaway ~
I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something. ~By Mike Judge ~
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought. ~By Clara Zetkin ~
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams. ~By Ralph Lauren ~
I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed. ~By Frank Bruno ~
Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe. ~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale. ~By Steve Nash ~
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. ~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class. ~By Martin C. Smith ~
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct. ~By Carl Sandburg ~
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. ~By Ernest Mandel ~
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job. ~By Alexandre Dumas ~
Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out. ~By Donna Shalala ~
I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ~By Richard Price ~
Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time. ~By Roy Romer ~
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. ~By Theodore White ~
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class. ~By Clara Zetkin ~
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