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The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

Quote by Gerry Adams about day

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time.

Quote by Kim Basinger about time, things

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Quote by Aristotel about politics, perfection

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

Quote by Michael Caine

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Quote by Michael Caine about things, contentment

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about common sense, action, pain, pleasure, life

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about old, olderness, past, soul, woman

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Quote by Orson Scott about being

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Quote by Orson Scott about education, writers, career, knowledge

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about film, things

If you did well, you were rewarded with middle-class neighborhoods, and I was given a neighborhood with tar-paper shacks, and the people were painfully poor.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about nation, contentment, people

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

Quote by Carmen Electra about art, attitude, heads, school, contentment

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic...

Quote by Hans Eysenck about end, failure

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Quote by William Falconer

I'm attracted to classical things, not fads. I'm sure everybody has a'70s photograph of himself with a velvet lapel and a wide tie. But I like pieces that have age to them.

Quote by Andy Garcia about age, olderness, things

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Quote by Colin Firth

It's OK for us to have all these movies where people's heads are cut off, and then you can't see a movie based on classic literature?

Quote by Melanie Griffith about heads, literature, people, contentment

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to...

Quote by Henry Ford about money, world, power, real estate

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed...

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, judges, people, public, rightness, good, good luck