Upper Quotes
386 quotes by 342 authors
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.…
— Oscar Wilde
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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead…
— Oscar Wilde
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I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get…
— C.S. Lewis
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I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this…
— Pete Doherty
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We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be…
— Ninette de Valois
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It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can…
— Earl Nightingale
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
— Yakov Smirnoff
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
— Hanna Rosin
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I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.
— Kelly Rutherford
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I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and I went and…
— Marc Warren
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Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is -…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I…
— Justin Lee
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I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was…
— Matisyahu
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The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on…
— George Packer
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I would say I came from upper middle class family.
— Bob Newhart
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of…
— Asif Ali Zardari
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
— Harmon Killebrew
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I remember, my first job when I got my working papers at 13 was as a vendor at Yankee Stadium - the old Yankee Stadium,…
— Lloyd Blankfein
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The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater,…
— Adam Rapp
Who Wrote These Upper Quotes
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