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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."
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"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."
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"I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class."
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"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."
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"If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections."
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"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."
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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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"I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room."
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"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."
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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
Class
"By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero."
Time
"I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me."
Politics
"It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me."
Nature
"But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now."
Love
"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
"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
"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."
Ideas
"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."
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