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Related I would say I came from upper middle class family. BOB NEWHART I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very... CHARLES KIMBROUGH I come from a middle-class family, but we are open-minded people. KRITI SANON There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. JUDITH MARTIN There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class JUDITH S. MARIN There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class JUDITH S. MARIN I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices. KANGANA RANAUT I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both read... FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI III My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in ... ALEK WEK In poverty, people are possessions. In the middle class, possessions means things, JODY WILLIAMS I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest depart... ANUPAM KHER I was middle class and fucked up and spoilt. SARA SHERIDAN I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father. THEODORE C. SORENSEN I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school. KATE BROWN I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been. TOM HARDY I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle class morality GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teac... DEONTAY WILDER I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . . What is mi... THOMAS MOORE I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-... MIUCCIA PRADA I had come from a middle-class family in Port Washington, Long Island, and I was really clueless abo... ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it... BETH DITTO Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get t... VIRAT KOHLI A family relying on a teacher's salary or a city employee's salary is solidly middle class as long a... ELIZABETH WARREN What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forb... FRANTZ FANON I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find ... J. K. ROWLING I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We al... DANA CARVEY Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way! ANNETTE BENING Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-clas... MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family. LARRY GAGOSIAN I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to ... DAVID QUAMMEN I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one... GRAHAM SWIFT We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny... J. K. ROWLING The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. ORSON WELLES Remember 'The Brady Bunch' TV show? That 1970s family had a full-time live-in housekeeper ca... PETER SCHIFF I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when g... AL FRANKEN My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial... SANDER LEVIN I'm painfully middle class. VALERIE HARPER I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above worki... GERARD BUTLER My life has been nothing special. I am a quiet person who came from a very ordinary, middle-class Ne... RUTH ELLIS I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit... MADHUR BHANDARKAR My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p... J. J. WATT It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, an... BLAKE BAILEY People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots... SHERROD BROWN A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated. ELIOT ENGEL There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affir... ETHAN CANIN I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class fa... SURESH RAINA Middle-class parents are paying more and people from lower incomes have slightly higher debts than t... USHER What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not. DAN MAFFEI In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the as... JESSICA MITFORD That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the co... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR This is a full-scale assault on middle-class homeowners, and we need even at this early moment to in... STEVE ISRAEL would lead to a 40 percent cut in current benefits for middle-class beneficiaries, add five trillion... JOHN SALAZAR I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is ve... THALIA We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up. ALI FAZAL In Florida, almost anyone can have access to the beach. Up until the past few years, a middle-class ... MITCH VARNES I grew up in an upper-middle-class family. Street life is foreign to me. I'm not sure I'm going to g... LARRY MITZEL Making the change from poverty to middle class is a 12 round boxing match. but the the change from m... KENNETH WATERS JR And I will repeat today what I have said throughout this campaign. I will not raise taxes on the mid... HILLARY CLINTON I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really r... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working c... MARTIN AMIS He came to see me a few weeks ago, and I said, 'You're not doing it exactly the way I did it,' ... '... ED KOCH It's middle-class housing in a lower-class neighborhood that has no transportation network. People h... MICHAEL HART I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary... ROBERT WINSTON When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class... JACKIE SPEIER Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich... BILL CLINTON John Kerry has fought for middle-class tax relief and has proposed new middle-class tax cuts in this... DAVID WADE I want to lower taxes for the middle class. DONALD TRUMP I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was una... BETTY BUCKLEY I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver sp... JUDE LAW I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World W... WALTER KOHN I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public schoo... ELLIOTT ABRAMS I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world.... IMTIAZ ALI The French Revolution and the rise of the middle class signaled the end of the harpsichord's popular... KATHLEEN MCINTOSH I think we have focused on the middle-class actor who has needed some relief and help to be able to ... WILLIAM DANIELS One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catchin... ORHAN PAMUK I don't know enough about him to have an opinion. I want to make sure that he's compassionate toward... ANN CLARK You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, sna... JOHN LE CARRE If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd thi... MARK HADDON What has happened in our community is very unfortunate. We have created two communities: a middle cl... JULIO VáZQUEZ SR I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people... JR Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and la... KAMALA HARRIS Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think... BILL CLINTON I strongly support tax relief for the middle class. RICK LARSEN Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap... WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON It is the middle class which takes the country forward. GAUTAM MUKHERJI Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people a... PAUL BEATTY They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. E.M. FORSTER You're a domestic man, David. You feel hundreds of small affections all the time. They haunt every f... J.G. BALLARD I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fost... SHERRI SAUM I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad mid... ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress, KATSUYA OKADA I cannot take away the fact I am a small-town boy from India, from a lower-middle class family, and ... ANUPAM KHER I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that spee... ED WESTWICK What interested me is that it is working-class and some middle-class housing, ... Typically one find... JOSEPH BUTLER If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even ... WARREN BUFFETT Elm Street was the dividing line between the two worlds. On either side of this line there were fami... WILLIAM MAXWELL Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching tow... JAMES S. COLEMAN
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LEONARD COHEN The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... LEONARD COHEN The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. LEONARD COHEN The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th... LEONARD COHEN He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no ... LEONARD COHEN The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. GLORIA LEONARD Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ... LEONARD COHEN Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. LEONARD BERNSTEIN The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second... LEONARD BERNSTEIN I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ... LEONARD BERNSTEIN What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ... LEONARD COHEN The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t... LEONARD COHEN In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. LEONARD COHEN A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a... LEONARD BERNSTEIN To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co... LEONARD COHEN When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Tryin... LEONARD BERNSTEIN Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th... LEONARD BERNSTEIN A customer who complains is my best friend. STEW LEONARD Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n... STEVE LEONARD The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ... LEONARD COHEN I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. GLORIA LEONARD Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th... LEONARD BERNSTEIN Clarity affords focus. THOMAS LEONARD Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship ... LEONARD COHEN Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we ha... LEONARD MLODINOW My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati... LEONARD NIMOY