When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.
When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.
I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
Love is like being on a small boat in the middle of the sea with no compass and no one to rely on except each other.
Thinking is so easy and natural, you have to do it when you're on a rock, in the middle of the ocean.
I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows.
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.
I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
