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• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, People, Ends

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• If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

  Camille Paglia

  Goal, Vision, Feminism

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• Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Past, Royalty

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• The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.

  Ruth Simmons

  Humanity, Groups, Should

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• Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

  William Hague

  Children, Dirty, Thinking

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". Speech at the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

  Charley Reese

  Gun, Common, Method

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• But there were alternative media outlets. Oh sure, and you know who listens to them? Pansy, overeducated know-it-alls, and you know who listens to them? Nobody! Who's going to care about some PBS-NPR fringe minority that's out of touch with the mainstream? The more those elitist eggheads shouted "The Dead Are Walking," the more most real Americans tuned them out.

  Max Brooks

  Real, Media, Npr

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• Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, World, Outsiders

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• If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Believe, Branches, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.

  Billie Jean King

  People, Want, Feels

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Greatness, Civilization

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.115, Vintage

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• While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals.

  Matei Calinescu

  Lying, Character, Unique

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• Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.

  Michael Haneke

  Liars, Hypocrite, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

  Steve Coogan

  Smart, Laughing, Crowds

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 17, 2009.

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• The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the benefit. It's a stupid way to do politics. Economic issues can more often be addressed concretely, and it would seem logical for people to vote their interests in this area.

  Timothy Noah

  Stupid, Often Is, Issues

  Source: www.slate.com

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• What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Trying, Exclusive

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• I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.

  Newt Gingrich

  Internet, Free Speech, Broadcasting

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• My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Sports, Player, Winning

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.

  Jim Woodring

  Important, World, Might

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Kind, Educated, Regard

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

  Richard Benjamin

  Black, Want, Kind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, College, People

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• There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.

  Tom Morello

  Powerful, Kids, Thinking

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• After so many years now, it's just suspected by most people that there simply is no way to change the direction Washington's going or the country's going or to do anything about that small group of establishment elitists in both parties that end up running things for themselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Country, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

  Cal Thomas

  Country, Thinking, Diversity

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