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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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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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"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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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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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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"They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian."
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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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"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."
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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
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"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."
Architecture
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
Thinking
"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."
Goal
"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
Parents
"We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother."
Brother
"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."
Life
"All my work is much more peaceful than I am."
Work
"Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next."
Nothing
"Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice."
Thought
"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."
Authority
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