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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing. -- Joseph Kosinski
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I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer. -- Alan Furst
I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. -- Laura Linney
Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius. -- George Gershwin
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. -- Ayn Rand
Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss -- Diablo Cody
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. -- David Amram
I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed. -- Sonia Gandhi
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. -- Harry Mathews
I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side. -- Kelly Rutherford
The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho. -- Harmon Killebrew
I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side. -- Rick Riordan
The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. -- Noel Coward
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since -- Kim Stanley
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since -- Kim Stanley
With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment. -- Joe Scarborough
I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons. -- Judy Gold
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic. -- Camille Paglia
The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence. -- H. G. Wells
If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man. -- Michael Bloomberg
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. -- Bill Jenkins
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. -- Bill Jenkins
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. -- George Catlin
The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California. -- Bryan Burrough
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship. -- Peter Bichsel
I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before. -- Joe Scarborough
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada. -- John Strachan
The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular traits we associate with Negroid and Mongoloid types. -- Raymond Cattell
I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away. -- Rick Riordan
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I'm very boring, really: I live on the Upper East Side, a block from the park. I have three kids. I go for a jog around the park every day with my dog. -- Colum McCann
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings. -- David Amram
Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany. -- Hjalmar Schacht
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria. -- Alistair MacLean
Exploration is a quite legitimate purpose for a journey. You have the opportunity to learn the territories of the Upper and Lower Worlds and their assets, which you can employ as needed in the future. -- Sandra Harner
Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you. -- Ansel Elgort
Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market. -- Dale Archer
Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too. -- Action Bronson
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. -- George Catlin
Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine. -- Hilda Solis
The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, and everyone around me is over 50. How interested will they be in my kind of work? -- Adam Rapp
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. -- John Strachan
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk. -- Bret Easton Ellis
When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals. -- Peter Coyote
In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side. -- Kate Christensen
Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund kids, co-opted flags, gubernatorial portraits, art in second-tier cities, and Upper Midwestern esoterica, brim with both wit and humor. -- Joe Meno
Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely to interact regularly only with kin and neighborhood children, which limits their formation of valuable weak ties. -- Robert D. Putnam
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s). -- Peter York
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society. -- Sun Ra
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. -- Edward Hopper
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. -- Ron Kind
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit. -- Joel Kinnaman
I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy. -- Amy Adams
You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer. -- Bob Marley
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world. -- Roma Downey
Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway. -- Howard Carter
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. -- Christopher Eccleston
I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that. -- Nick McDonell
Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities. -- Bono
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. -- Virgil
Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner... That's the way 'Saw' plays out. -- Tobin Bell
Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever! -- Twiggy
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck. -- James Wolcott
I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there. -- Asif Ali Zardari
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it. -- Warren Buffett
Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper. -- Wolfman Jack
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy. -- Ha-Joon Chang
I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else. -- Matisyahu
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. -- N. T. Wright
I would love to see no more ghettos, but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight! An upper class, more educated person - they find a diplomatic way to tell you the thing. I love it when you just come heart to heart. That's the way I knew it coming up, so that's the way I like it. -- Jimmy Cliff
There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Keep a stiff upper chin. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Make your upper limit, no limit. -- Ron Kaufman
I always liked red. It's a picker-upper. -- Nancy Reagan
Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent. -- Nancy Kress
To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper. -- Yakov Smirnoff
'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is. -- Phyllis Logan
Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is. -- Phyllis Logan
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. -- Claude A. Swanson
I would say I came from upper middle class family. -- Bob Newhart
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. -- Aulus Gellius
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper. -- Simon Cowell
My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical. -- Sharon Green
Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. -- William Stafford
No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. -- P. T. Barnum
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. -- Jeff Koons
And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip. -- Phoebe Cary
I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire. -- David Tepper
Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious. -- Sun Tzu
Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity. -- Stephen Colbert
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. -- James F. Cooper
It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work. -- Elon Musk
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile. -- Judith Guest
London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys. -- George Gissing
Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on. -- Bob Dylan
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. -- Judith Guest
I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different. -- Thom Yorke
In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut. -- Lisa Birnbach
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win. -- E. W. Howe
There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper? -- Laura Schlessinger
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people. -- Holly Near
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand. -- Ronnie Montrose
I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been. -- Natalie du Toit
Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature. -- John Wayne
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. -- Michael Parenti
We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford. -- Benito Mussolini
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? -- Francesca Annis
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. -- Judith Martin

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