Quint: You have city hands, Mr. Hooper. You been countin' money all your life. Hooper: All right, all right. Hey, I don't need this... I don't need this working-class-hero crap.
I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.
I've recently discovered Cardiobar. It's in L.A. and it has Cardio Aerobics. It's all women with no shoes on, dancing to upbeat music. I'm just dripping sweat at the end of the class. It's very fun for me, and it makes me want to work out.
One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same.
I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm ...
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that...
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.
