Privileged Quotes - Page 17

• It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Excess, Levels

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

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• We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, World, Photographer

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• To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.

  Cesar Luis Menotti

  Football, Dream, Mean

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• We have every reason to say, and I note this with great satisfaction, that a truly friendly relationship has evolved with China, and in many key areas these relations, without any exaggeration, have a strategic character. As we say, the strategic character of privileged partnership.

  Vladimir Putin

  Character, Keys, Friendly

  Source: www.rt.com

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• "St. Lucia We Love" is actually a song produced by Stratosphere music (also St. Lucian). The CEO of Stratosphere music approached me and wanted me to produce a music video for this song which was already a hit in my country. I felt privileged to have been chosen to do such a video. So every time I went out to shoot a scene from the video, I would get a still shot from the scene to tease the public. The photo of the amazona versicolor is is an actual scene from the video which was released on St. Lucia's Independence day (22nd February, 2013).

  St. Lucia

  Country, Song, Love Is

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• I think Malcolm Forbes got kicked out of our school and [Ethiopian Emperor] Hallie Selassie's grandkids went there, too. Because of security reasons you have to go to those schools. We had a privileged life, fine, but also very secure. So I think it's great where the [Barack] Obama daughters are going to school.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Daughter, School, Thinking

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• That's a very privileged attitude and I think the ignorance is so strong there. When people say, "Oh please, I don't want to hear that conversation," it's because it makes them uncomfortable." But that's because they think it's all okay. If it was racist, I would move onto someone whose mind I could change, but it's mostly ignorance. So when someone says, "Oh, it doesn't matter," I not only make designers responsible but casting directors and modeling agencies for not pushing those other girls on to the designers.

  Bethann Hardison

  Girl, Strong, Attitude

  Source: time.com

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• Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

  Ai Weiwei

  Directors, Moments, China

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.

  Dustin Clare

  Character, Fighting, Thinking

  "Dustin Clare SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 23, 2012.

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• I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Business, Growing Up, Learning

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• A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Rich Countries, People

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• The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement that animated and still animates these bodies because the history continues and we live under no particular privileged conditions at any given time in this great process.

  Emile Argand

  Science, Movement, Body

  Emile Argand, Albert V. Carozzi (1977). “Tectonics of Asia”, Hafner Pub. Co.

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• Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

  Tom Cruise

  Believe, Able, Film

  "Tom Cruise Talks 'Rock of Ages' and Oprah-gate in his 2012 Playboy Interview". Interview with Michael Fleming, www.playboy.com. June 2012.

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• I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

  John Toshack

  Successful, Player, Knowledge And Experience

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• I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

  Twyla Tharp

  Teaching, Years, Able

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• [Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Academia, Moral

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Justice, Our Society, Moral

  "Sonia Sotomayor: A Look at Obama's Supreme Court Pick" by Reynolds Holding, abcnews.go.com. May 26, 2009.

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• I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.

  Evgeny Kissin

  Play, Piano, Wish

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• Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.

  Simon Sinek

  Military, Spending Time, Share

  "The Human Side Of Organizations: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

  Isabel Allende

  Quality, World, Want

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• Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Children, Obligation

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• Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Food Culture

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

  Lana Turner

  Grateful, Thinking, Bed Of Roses

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Growing Up, Heart, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  " Zaha Hadid says austerity is not an excuse for low-quality housing" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.

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