"Everyone has class, one class or another."

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Francesca Annis

“I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.”

Source : "Search Rings SEARCH China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.
“In politics, it's very theatrical. Thereâ€™s a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.”

Source : "‘Ides Of March’ Screenwriter Beau Willimon Talks Political Vs. Oscar Campaigns & Why George Clooney Deserved More Oscar Nods". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 25, 2012.
“People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.”
“to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.”
“By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.”
“It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.”
“When I teach a class I often give the assignment: Photograph someone you love. I ask people to do this so they have a subject about whom they have feelings, a subject that is more than a model, or an object, or a shape, or an idea. In this way, they can judge the result not only by its technical success, but also by how well it describes their feelings.”

Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books
“We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.”

Source : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, Broadview Press

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