Entitled Quotes - Page 18

• It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Simple, Player

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• The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Pay, Affair, Feels

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Education, Truth, Freedom

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Steven R. Weisman (2010). “Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary”, p.2, PublicAffairs

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• Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

  Edward Norton

  Couple, Thinking, Awards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Religious, Believe, Equality

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• On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

  Barbra Streisand

  Thinking, Political Opinions, People

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• But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

  Arlen Specter

  Jobs, Judging, Our Society

  "Inside Politics" with Candy Crowley, edition.cnn.com. March 14, 2005.

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• ... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis.

  Greg Erwin

  Long, Democracy, Colonialism

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• Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

  Susan Sontag

  Failure, Criticism, Lapses

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• Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Expectations, Criticism, Courtesy

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, World, Existence

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• Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

  Donny Osmond

  People, Sometimes, Entitlement

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• I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

  George Osborne

  Believe, Political, Limits

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• I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Men, Keys, Doors

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• Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th amendments to the (US) Constitution....To be insensitive to the very fundamental civil liberties....(:) the choice...of the person whose body is being ravaged (by disease), is to display slight understanding of the essence of our free society and its constitutional underpinnings.

  Luther L. Bohanon

  Dark, Essence, Choices

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• Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Righteous Man, Affair

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• Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

  Amy Grant

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Simply Complicated". Christianity Today Interview, www.crosswalk.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of information on scientific as well as popular subjects. I should say of him that he is the most distinguished man of talents I have ever known on the continent: but I doubt if He be entitled to the appellation of a Man of Genius.

  Humphry Davy

  Character, Science, Men

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• The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is more important ... to affirm and live by civilized standards ... than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Race, White, Community

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• Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Believe, People, Personality

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

  Bob Barr

  Parent, Special, Experts

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• I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

  Neko Case

  School, Good Friend, Who I Am

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• A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

  Tom C. Clark

  Cities, Trials, Arena

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• I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Believe, Class

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.255, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

  Charles Hodge

  Exercise, Names, People

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.16

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