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I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
Bobby Sands
Tags: Freedom Only Boy
If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.
Charlie Trotter
Tags: Great You Me
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.


Paul McCartney
Tags: You People Like
The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang my gloves, I want to win the Olympic medal, and my performance at London will decide my future in the sport.
Mary Kom
Despite the occasional high decibel level, 'The Group' is not a shout fest. I don't simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another.
John McLaughlin
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.
Sarah Churchwell
Tags: Will Sense Point
It's easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class.
Evel Knievel
Tags: Men Famous People
I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.
Fergie
Tags: Me Just Who
Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.
Chuck Schumer
I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.
Peter Noone
Tags: About Out Always
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.


Mary Harris Jones
Tags: Am I Am Afraid
The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
Gary Clark, Jr.
Tags: Me Them Something
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I make films about working class people.


Taylor Hackford
Tags: People About Make
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Sport must be accessible to working class youth.


Pierre de Coubertin
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.
Herbert Hoover
Tags: Teacher You Will
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I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.


Sharon Maguire
Tags: Up Part Working
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
Karl Radek
Tags: Home Them Only
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
Leon Jouhaux
Tags: Change Me Could
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.


Elia Kazan
Tags: Working Young Art
If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
Bonnie McKee
Tags: Work Cool Trust