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Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
I took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
The other girls [in team] have experience. They've been competing on a lot of international world-class stages. They knew what to expect… — Gabby Douglas Copy Share Image
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle… — Larry Bucshon Copy Share Image
Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my… — Olesya Rulin Copy Share Image
I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
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As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
The Jews are a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also department orders and are herein… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have… — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Copy Share Image
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical,… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
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