Privileged Quotes - Page 10

• I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a price I could afford. My love of vintage is rooted in that. Drugstores were the mecca for the latest makeup trends and products.

  Eva Mendes

  Growing Up, Makeup, Vintage

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

  William Joyce

  Class, Jew, Regard

  William Joyce's speech at Chiswick (1934) as quoted in Francis Selwyn "Hitler's Englishman: Crime of Lord Haw-Haw" (p. 43), 1987.

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• I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Character, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

  Russell Crowe

  Artist, Thinking, Lines

  "American Gangster - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Self, Feelings, Musician

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

  Alanis Morissette

  Buckets, Next, Enough

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

  Edward Norton

  Uncles, Thinking, Parent

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• Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

  Bill Moyers

  Struggle, Ordinary, Citizens

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• Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Enterprise, Free Enterprise, Private Enterprise

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• Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

  Emily Blunt

  Actresses, Lucky, Sandwiches

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• I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Mean, Writing

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.

  Tony Abbott

  Jobs, People, Today

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

  Thelma Golden

  Art, Museums, Way

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• I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).

  Frances Trollope

  Silly, America, Class

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press

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• It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

  Philippe Aries

  Childhood, Age, Division

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• I live a very privileged life, obviously. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mother, Sibling, Normal

  Source: collider.com

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• Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Love Is, Tough Love, Phrases

  Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.92, South End Press

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• Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Eye, Men, Judging

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• A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Book, Luxury, Lovers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.5

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• It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges.... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.

  Faye J Crosby

  Husband, Women, Worry

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Moon, Rockets

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.

  Ivan Illich

  Thinking, Government, Leader

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• To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Mean, Men

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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• I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Europe, United States, Alternatives

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.

  Marjorie Grene

  Thinking, Self, Attention

  Source: www.believermag.com

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