"in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

#Taken Quotes #Class Quotes #White Quotes

“When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal person," it seemed like a novel, possibly far-fetched idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I became intrigued.”

Source : "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.
“The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!”
“You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise”

Source : "Song: 'The Saddest Song'". 2003.
“We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.”
“Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.”
“I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You have moments where you do appearances and people recognize you and you get fan letters, but that's after you've put in long days rehearsing, filming and for us kids - going to school on the set.”
“The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.”

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