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class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
Charles Dickens The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
class safety age
Charles Dickens Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
class citizens degradation
Charles Dickens The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
class homicide one-thing
Chris Colfer When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out
class enough situation
David Weber She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.
class russia mafia
David Remnick There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
class community interest
David Ricardo The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
class judging wages
David Ricardo It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
parent religion indifferent
Charles Dickens The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.
parent pious
Akhil Sharma My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
parent one-day fool
Edward Hoagland Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.
parent touchy my-own
Ben Stiller My own parents were touchy-feely.
parent comedian actors
Ben Stiller Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
parent baptism slave
Arthur Rimbaud I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
parent dare critics
Arna Bontemps How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
parent knows hard
Dee Snider Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
parent literature cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
acting theatre nerves
Alan Rickman Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
acting actors doe
Al Pacino Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.
acting dies
Al Pacino Either I act or I die.
acting actors crafts
Al Pacino I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
acting i-realized
Al Pacino It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
acting firsts disguise
Antony Sher What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
acting retiring great-things
Denzel Washington We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
acting weird-things knows
Denzel Washington You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
acting film good-things
Denzel Washington One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.