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I remember, when I was a kid, I was a class clown, and I got into a lot of trouble for it, and I had to be put in a special class. Back in the eighties, in Nepean, Ontario, they just had a class for anyone they didn't want around. It was sort of like school jail.
Gavin McInnes
Class
Remember
School
Trouble
Clown
Back
Kid
Class Clown
Ontario
Had
Remember When
Put
Like
Sort
Around
Got
Lot
Jail
Just
Want
Anyone
Eighties
Special
I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.
Gemma Chan
Work
Class
People
Work Hard
Treat
Take For Granted
Think
Society
City
About
More
Take
Badly
Idea
Provoking
Than
Same
Going
Often
Granted
Hard
Less
Who
Beings
Keep
Humans
Need
I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words.
Gene Luen Yang
Class
Words
Language
Programming
Took
Classroom
Through
Environment
Grade
Fifth
Specifically
Designed
Basically
I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
Gene Simmons
Travel
Class
Fly
First
First Class
Often
Bodyguard
Assistant
I didn't fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I'd beaten James DeGale.
George Groves
Myself
Class
Fool
World
Thinking
World-Class
Beaten
Because
Just
Just Because
James
President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.
George Miller
Education
Class
Passion
First
Spoke
First Class
Forceful
Access
His
Candid
Children
Bush
Manner
Should
The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of globalization, low-wage immigrant labor, and free trade. Trump sensed the rage that flared from this pain and made it the fuel of his campaign.
George Packer
Class
Made
Free
Party
White
Pain
Group
Rage
Immigrant
Free Trade
Globalization
Because
Trade
Demographic
Least
His
Trump
Campaign
Labor
Any
Sensed
Middle-Aged
Fuel
Much
Working
Working-Class
Base
Suffered
Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.
George Packer
Class
People
Feeling
Group
Sympathy
Progressives
Members
Easy
Vanish
Disturbing
Entity
Economic
Contact
Abstract
Powerful
Like
Know
Look
Sound
Arrive
Often
Want
Urban
Might
Working
Working-Class
Who
Beliefs
Actual
The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes.
George Packer
Government
Class
Pressure
Right-Wing
Simply
Beyond
Court
Role
Middle
Middle Class
Censure
Acknowledging
Taxes
Cutting
Play
I never went to school for writing, never took a writing class, but when you're in a room with David Simon and Ed Burns and Dennis Lehane and Richard Price, and they're going over something you've written, you learn what works and what doesn't.
George Pelecanos
You
Class
Writing
School
Took
Something
Simon
David
Price
Never
Written
Over
Learn
Going
Burns
Room
Richard
Works
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
George Saintsbury
Class
First
Few
Other
Side
Immense
Rank
High
Would
Promote
Some
More
Between
Names
Dickens
Scott
Than
Which
While
Them
Should
Production
Novels
Illustrated
Earlier
Second
Second-Class
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
George Sanders
Class
People
Wealth
Boredom
Most
Upper
Upper-Class
So-Called
Suffer
You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.
George Saunders
You
Class
People
Sex
Kind
About
Know
Talk
Up
Get
Race
Your
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
George W. S. Trow
Class
Nation
Difficult
Circumstances
Backward
Eclectic
Troubling
Advanced
Begins
Often
Ends
Process
Which
Choice
Many
Thing
Belong
Coherence
Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.
George Will
Class
Grateful
Political
Burden
Pay
Other
Corporate
Corporations
Favored
Collect
Cost
Feast
Consumers
Passing
Political Class
Conferred
Subsidies
Them
Taxation
Taxes
Production
Credits
Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.
George Will
Class
Entitlement
Welfare
Party
Those
Promoting
Vocation
Lifetime
Almost
Almost All
Democratic
Knows
Forever
Dependency
Middle
Middle Class
I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.
Gerard Butler
Great
Family
Me
Class
Wonderful
Law
Values
Degree
Lawyer
Great Family
Enticing
Above
Having
Idea
Also
Came
Very
Going
Just
Middle
Middle Class
Working
Working-Class
Actor
Chance
Below
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
Gia Coppola
Class
Creative
Writing
Playwriting
Only
Taken
Like
Screenplays
Creative Writing
Ever
I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.
Giada De Laurentiis
Good
Home
Me
Class
Confidence
Learning
Feel Good
Acceptance
Wonderful
Ego
School
Build
Think
About
Feel
Make
Get
Wonderful Thing
Children
Them
Themselves
Cook
Cooked
Help
Helped
Even
Thing
Things
Start
Bring
Colour is not the issue in America; class is.
Gil Scott-Heron
Class
Colour
Issue
America
In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.
Gillian Jacobs
Class
Women
Pay
Paper
Gum
Able
About
Write
Had
Like
Most
Equal
Wrote
Equal Pay
Opinion
Chew
Grade
Sixth
Should
Why
Things
Receive
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.
Gillian Jacobs
Life
Class
School
My Life
Real Life
Monday
Through
Had
Real
Friday
Which
Then
Acting
Acting Class
Saturday
In high school, driver's ed was at the same time as drama class. And I had to take drama class. Now I can sing the lead in 'Oklahoma!,' but I can't drive.
Glenn Ligon
Time
Class
School
Drive
Drama
Oklahoma
High
High School
Take
Driver
Lead
Had
Sing
Same
Same Time
Now
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
Religion
Class
People
Own
Live
Our
Ease
Plenty
Find
Marry
Eat
Only
Comfort
Normally
Race
Prejudice
Play
My first sketch-writing class was with Kevin Allison from 'The State.' It was so cool.
Grace Helbig
Class
First
State
Allison
Cool
Kevin
What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.
Grace Paley
Work
You
Class
Own
Else
Tell
Take
Generally
Another
Anybody
Not Interested
Interested
Your
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