Chris Hughton Quotes

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

We want to be more than just being the Bella Twins and the stars of these reality TV shows. I want to have a bigger purpose in life. So that's why, with Birdiebee, we really want to give back.

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.

I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

Political service is important because it's about helping others help themselves. That was engrained in me from a young child.

'Sons' was about working class white guys. And even though I didn't grow up in a motorcycle club, I grew up in a working-class, white-guy neighborhood.

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.

Every one of us has the ability to raise awareness, volunteer, educate our friends and family, and give back to our communities.

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.