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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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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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"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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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
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"For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few."
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"We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world."
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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
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"I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids."
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"I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums."
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"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
"All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans."
Fans
"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
"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
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"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
"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
"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
"All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations."
Music
"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."
Being
"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."
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