Privilege Quotes - Page 25

• I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

  Elia Kazan

  Thinking, Actors, Intense

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• I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

  Matt Damon

  Growing Up, Kids, Class

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.

  Novak Djokovic

  Unique, Chance, Talent

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• I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Unions, Marriage And Family

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• I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

  Neil LaBute

  Guy, Fit, Looking Good

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• Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

  Steve Buyer

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Our Veterans

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• The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Boys, Men, Knights

  Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.14

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• Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

  Gloria Allred

  Giving Up, Struggle, Painful Death

  "Gloria Allred's Fighting Spirit" by Leslie Bennetts, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 1, 2010.

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• I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

  Eric Cantona

  Lucky, Want, Able

  "Switch review: Eric Cantona owns the screen in French thriller" by David Edwards, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2012.

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• I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good.

  Julie Chen

  Hard Times, People, Feel Good

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

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• Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

  Ava DuVernay

  School, Film, Film School

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

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• I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

  James Daly

  Artist, People, Conversation

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• It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

  Kenny Dalglish

  Football, Honor, Clubs

  "Dalglish out as Liverpool manager". www.foxnews.com. May 16, 2012.

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• In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Garden, Lakes, Years

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• I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

  Joel Edgerton

  Real, Believe, Projects

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

  Norman Finkelstein

  People, Desire, Revelations

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• I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.

  Will Friedle

  Honor

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• I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?

  Erin Gruwell

  Growing Up, Educational, Kids

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• A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

  Bart Gordon

  License

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• To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

  David Geffen

  United States, Able, Economy

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• There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think" by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Heart, Knowing

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.

  Margaret Sanger

  Death, Science, Population

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Cutting, Luxury

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.119, Verso

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• It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

  Roger Goodell

  Nfl, Wanted

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