Quotes of: Working-classes Keyword

You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself...

Susan Egan

I like to read. I go to movies quite a bit. I often go to see friends in theater productions. I hike, stretch and work out. I like to sing. I love going back to acting class and working on new material.

Juliet Landau

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, ...

Henry Louis Gates

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Rosa Luxemburg

The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

Samira Wiley

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

Nigel Cole

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

Bat for Lashes

I always put a lot of priority on my education, even if that means taking classes after work or on the weekends.

Nolan Gould

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.

Jasper Carrott

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Javier Bardem

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

John Mortimer

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

Ernest Mandel

Women are still second-class citizens.

Joan Jett

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think ...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty.

Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology—that progress comes through class struggle, often violent. It led to the widespread belief that the only way to achieve justice wa...

Steven Pinker

i was really into communal living and we were all / such free spirits, crossing the country we were / nomads and artists and no one ever stopped / to think about how the one working class housemate / was whoring to support a gang of upper middle clas...

The Beautiful: Collected Poems

Many of us attend a few yoga classes and find that we like the glimpse of another way of life that yoga offers. We are delighted by the way we feel after class and we are pleasantly surprised as certain behaviors start to fall away. Perhaps we no lon...

Love

It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up awhile and down awhile.

Irish

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem ...

Tony Hawk

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

Elia Kazan