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• A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Mean, Feelings, Able

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• I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

  Nat King Cole

  Rights, Citizens, Feels

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• A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Equality, Doe

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, p. 79, 1960.

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• And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obamas way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Two, People, Giving

  "Bill O'Reilly: 'The white establishment is now the minority'" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

  Doris Roberts

  Thinking, Taught, Realizing

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• In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

  J. Norman Collie

  Country, Freedom, Men

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• But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

  Christian Lacroix

  Men, Benefits, Worship

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• Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

  Tim McGraw

  Mean, Should Have, Voice

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• The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can

  Loretta Swit

  Happiness, Constitution, Pursuit

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• Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes and tribal members, this means that the authority of tribal governments must be accorded the respect and support to which they are entitled under the law. It means that American Indian children and youth must be provided a solid education and the opportunity to go on to college. It means that more must be done to stimulate tribal economies, create jobs, and increase economic opportunities.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Children, Mean

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• Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you
  When really they no different from all your rivals.

  Nicki Minaj

  Hate, Love You, Self

  "Song: 'Pills N Potions'". 2014.

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• When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Responsibility, Gay, Lunch

  "Gay Marriage and the Law" by Nick Traverse, www.newyorker.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Simple, Giving

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Exercise, Power

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• One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.

  Barbara Jordan

  Immigration, Benefits, Illegal

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• A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

  Mark Twain

  School, Sunday, Pirate

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.399, Univ of California Press

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• That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of the conscience; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.

  Patrick Henry

  Christian, 4th Of July, Exercise

  Virginia Bill of Rights article 16 (1776)

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• The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rights, Law, Favors

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published”, p.457

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• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  Patricia Ireland

  Equality, Sisterhood, People

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• We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.

  Leo Lowenthal

  Time, Hero, Past

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• You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

  Karl Rove

  Math, Different, May

  "Political Power Player Rove Leaves the Game". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 13, 2007.

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• The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Believe, People

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• The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Gun, Strong Arms

  "The writings of Thomas Jefferson".

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• Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cities, Tyrants, Democracy

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “Unseen Academicals”, p.13, Oberon Books

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• Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.

  Rafael Nadal

  Opinion

  "Rafael Nadal slams silent Roger Federer as strike talk ignites at Australian Open". www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2012.

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