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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler."
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"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class."
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"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result."
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"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."
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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
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"Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."
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"I'm only going to be running the Pro Class this season, that way I can focus on the Pro Championship."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while."
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"In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there."
People
"Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today."
Politics
"So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time."
Love
"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
Class
"I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return."
War
"All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations."
Music
"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."
Business
"That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really."
Change
"The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level."
Artist
"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."
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