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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions. -- Dick Cavett
When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person. -- Jed S. Rakoff
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. -- Stella Adler
Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable. -- Megan Smith
You might be a redneck if your classes at school were cancelled because the path to the restroom was flooded. -- Jeff Foxworthy
A black Mercedes Benz 450 SL pulled up. It was your classic hood auto beloved of terrorists, pimps and African dictators. -- Adrian McKinty
I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray. -- Cassandra Clare
Lion's mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills. -- Paul Stamets
Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun. -- India de Beaufort
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong. -- Neil Turok
We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy. -- Andre Maurois
There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them. -- Julianne Hough
Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. -- Mitch Daniels
I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy. -- James McAvoy
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity. -- Stanley Crouch
Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. -- James Larkin
I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I'm your classic American mutt. -- Joe Lhota
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class. -- Maya Lin
If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school. -- Malcolm Gladwell
This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself. -- Meg Cabot
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. -- Bob Riley
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since. -- Tana French
Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes. -- Busy Philipps
If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out a big snort and say "How do you figger that!" real loud. Then lean back and sort of smirk. -- Jack Handey
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Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge -- Plato
We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know? -- Christian Scott
By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1. -- Dennis Miller
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop. -- Derek Jacobi
I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and I remember how traumatic that was for me, because I remember watching that on the news and all the children in our class were watching. -- Jonathan Nolan
I personally find the ideas that girls need to cover their shoulders in school a little bit strange... when we're telling girls, you know, 'You have to cover your shoulders because otherwise you're a distraction to other people in your class,' probably something is wrong. -- Rebecca Stead
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child. -- Leo Tolstoy
In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina. -- Jim Hunt
Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there. -- Scott Walker
What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank. -- Susan Cain
Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunion always say the same thing. They could not believe that, being a world artist, I still seem like I was when we were at school together. -- Percy Sledge
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live. -- James Young
I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to. -- Andrew Wyatt
What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at all costs. So Ariel needs to be me for every project, and if there are any other Ariels floating around out there, it's not necessarily Disney. -- Jodi Benson
Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport. -- Kathy Reichs
Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity. -- Ricky Martin
I would love for a regular student to have a student-athlete's schedule during the season for just one quarter or one semester and show me how you balance that. Show me how you would schedule your classes when you can't schedule classes from 2-to-6 o'clock on any given day. -- Richard Sherman
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. -- Sonia Sotomayor
But hey, what's life without a little adversity?"That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us. -- Alexandra Bracken
A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class. -- Mark Pocan
Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class. -- Carly Fiorina
Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. -- John Marshall Harlan
Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class. -- Joss Whedon
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy. -- Bob Taft
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. -- Jackie Robinson
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress. -- Raul Ruiz
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. -- Lionel Trilling
I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system. -- Kevin Kline
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. -- James Bovard
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. -- Walt Whitman
I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled. -- Cindy Sheehan
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class. -- Kamala Harris
The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school districts. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity. -- Marco Rubio
We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers. -- Scott Walker
It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry. -- Gordon W. Allport
Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens. -- Cindy McCain
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold
Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better. -- Guo Guangchang
I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972. -- Kevin Sessums
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? -- Sophie Kinsella
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite. -- Carly Fiorina
Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II. -- Jeff Greene
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. -- Henry Louis Gates
It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class. -- Barack Obama
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. -- Plato
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. -- Gore Vidal
We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens. -- Bill T. Jones
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. -- Walter Cronkite
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle. -- Cesar Luis Menotti
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. -- Lavrenti Lopes
Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves. -- Norman Podhoretz
Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages. -- Norm Sloan
The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us. -- Mario Cuomo
The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb. -- Angela Davis
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school. -- Mamata Banerjee
Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits. -- Larisa Kuznetsova
I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. -- Chic Murray
I remember when I first encountered anthropocentrism. I was in primary school and, in preparation for our confirmation, the class was learning about the afterlife. -- John Burnside
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs. -- Isaac Asimov
The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties. -- Nancy Pelosi
If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. -- Ellen Tauscher
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school. -- James Sinegal
The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests. -- Patricia Schroeder
In America, We have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries. We take care of them better than we take care of ourselves. -- Donald Trump
I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude. -- Bernard Goldberg
If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property -- Theobald of Bec
We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. -- Charles Dickens
Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt. -- Oliver DeMille
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home. -- Valerie Miner
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong. -- Timothy Noah
Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven. -- Jesse Jackson
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically. -- William J. Clinton
Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible. -- Socrates
I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living. -- Patti Smith
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. -- George Orwell
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. -- Warren Buffett
There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other. -- Richard Benjamin

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