"Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side."
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"I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of our...classes...it's supposed to be a story about guilt and the dangers of civil disobedience, but when I first read it I thought it seemed kind of lame and melodramatic. Now I get it, though. Poe must have snuck out a lot when he was young."
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"My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class."
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"Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture."
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"I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends."
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"An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost."
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"Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome."
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"The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan."
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"Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses."
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"The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class."
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"The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure."
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"The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others."
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"I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels."
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"In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts."
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"This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you."
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"The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes."
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"Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected."
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"European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself to be part of an old and honorable tradition--of intellectual activity, of letters--and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America."
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"The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it."
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"Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class."
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