Pecking Order Quotes

• There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

  George Clooney

  Reality, Order, Thank God

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• I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Fighting, Order

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• I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Character, Order, Survival

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• When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.

  Corey Feldman

  Fashion, Responsibility, Thinking

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• We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Knowledge, Order, Ornaments

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, April 17, 2007.

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• School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Education, School, Order

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

  Jean Harris

  Thank You, Gratitude, Humility

  Jean Harris (1993). “Marking Time”, Zebra Books

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• Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

  Michael Douglas

  Fun, Order, Okay

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from May 13, 2013

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• Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

  Al Gini

  Order, Luxury, Rights

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• With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures, presenting assimilation as an advancement or promotion, dissolved.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Order, Advancement, Culture

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."

  Carl Andre

  Men, Order, Beats

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.

  Peter McWilliams

  Gay, Order, Groups

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• There was definitely a pecking order, and when Stallone walked in, we were like, "All hail!" He came in with his big forearms, pointing and telling everybody where he wanted the cameras with his big cigar ablazing, and you just go, "This is Stallone!" with admiration, because none of us would be here without this guy. That's the thing, he changed movies forever

  Terry Crews

  Order, Guy, Forever

  Source: aalbc.com

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• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  B. D. Wong

  Jobs, Order, Issues

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• As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make – and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.

  Bob Sutton

  Moving, Order, Boss

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• Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people are drawn to. But that has nothing to do with enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, People, Enlightenment

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