My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.
Jon Bon Jovi
WorkParentsMeetPrivilegeClass
At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.
James Gray
PeopleYouGoIslandClassWorst
I'm painfully middle class.
Valerie Harper
ClassMiddleMiddle ClassPainfully
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.
Merton Miller
WorkFinanceDataFindClassSee
People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.
Sherrod Brown
PeopleFeelLoseClassTradeMiddle
I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.
Thierry Mugler
LifeDayNightMy LifeClassStage
I wake up, go for dance class, and do the same things that I used to do. I am very asocial. I don't go out too often.
Disha Patani
DanceI AmWake UpGoClassOut
The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political.
Guy Standing
HistoryLosingPoliticalClassFirst
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
Tadashi Yanai
OpportunityPeopleWillClassBecome
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
John Podhoretz
PresentTaxWillClassMiddleClaim
I was always the tallest kid in my class.
Shamir
ClassKidAlwaysTallest
I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third Class Superhero.'
Sarah Weinman
StoryShortClassAnticipationOver
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
Dennis Rodman
SchoolCollegeHigh SchoolYouClass
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
Herbert Hoover
LeadershipCivilizationGroupClass
The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
Samira Wiley
PeopleYouClassWayOwnJust
I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.
Amy Heckerling
TryingYouGoFocusedSpecialClass
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
GovernmentLookingThinkClassOut
That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.
Sander Levin
SecurityHealthcareClassMiddle
Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.
Donna Shalala
FutureI AmMeRememberYearClass
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
Henry James Sumner Maine
WorldClassNationOverAncientFar
It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
Sally Quinn
WomenViewClassSameReligions
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
Stephen Hawking
SchoolMePotentialClassNeverTop
I ain't Nate Diaz. Nate Diaz is not a welterweight. He did not do well at welterweight because he was undersized, and these dudes are real gorillas in this weight class.
Tyron Woodley
ClassRealBecauseWellWeightHe
I was made fun of in the Midwest - I was the only Asian in my graduating class of 200. Fortunately, I found my niche, and it was fine. But I wanted to be so white, you wouldn't believe it. I was like, 'I want to be white; I don't want to be this anymore.' But now I embrace it.
Reggie Lee
FunBelieveYouWhiteWantClass
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