#lass

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#class #depends #digging #economy #george

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#comedy #feel #i #i feel #life

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it! ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#catholic school #class #class clown #clown #i

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#death #middle-class #night #out #packaged

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#began #best #black #black music #class

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#also #become #birth #bonding #break

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#conviction #hatreds #inevitable #national #nourish

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#class #connection #deep #educated #ideas

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#classical #cream #crop #did #extensive