Privileged Quotes - Page 3

• All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Perspective, World, Arrivals

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make the distinction between those who are exiles in terms of being thrown out of the place they want to be, and others who are exiles in terms of going toward a place they would rather be.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and economics together. I find them very irksome. Very difficult to like. They are privileged, but they don't want to talk about their privilege. It's difficult to find poetry amongst these people. Some sort of hidden spirit of beauty.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Patriotic, Class, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

  Julian Casablancas

  Thinking, People, Upbringing

  "Julian Casablancas: 'What would you like me to say?'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not as citizens but as residents. They might lose their social rights if they move to Ramallah. But I won't, so I live with privileges. That notion is very difficult for me as a child who was raised in a left-wing family, a family of people who suffered discrimination as Jews abroad. The notion that I am so privileged is disgusting. But this is what it means to live in a white society. You are white, so you are privileged.

  Amira Hass

  Children, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Heart, Men, Intellect

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• I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Thinking, Complaining

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• As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

  Juliette Binoche

  Giving, Actors, World

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. March 28, 2005.

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• I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

  Tom Brady

  Play, League, Best Coaches

  "Patriots Today - Tom Brady speaks after practice". The Patriots Interview, www.patriots.com. July 31, 2010.

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• It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fans, Loyal, Wonderful

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• I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Opportunity, Issues, Voice

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• My son is so fortunate, you know. He's always going to have food. Yes, my children are going to be privileged, but that's why it's so important for them to see different realities and to travel, and they do already.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Children, Son, Reality

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• To have a choice at all is to be privileged.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think people who work and being alive and paying your bills and feeding your kids is hard. It's hard to have the space. Quite frankly, I'm in a privileged position to think about things, to read about things and to educate myself about things. A lot of people just don't have the time.

  Ellen Page

  Kids, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I've always liked cops, as much as you can like a group of people, you know? Sure, I've been hassled, but I'm a white dude - privileged.

  Jeff Ross

  White, People, Groups

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Moving, Careers

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Should, Messy, Position

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want is the chance to be competitive. That's what I think the museum is supposed to be.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Thinking, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Reality, Blood, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the United States, the day when you pay your taxes is a day of mourning because this alien force - the government - is coming to rob you of your hard-earned money. That's the general attitude, and it's a tremendous victory for the opponents of democracy, and, of course, any privileged sector is going to hate democracy. You can see it in the healthcare debate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Hate, Government

  Source: www.iww.org

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• To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Enemy, Use, Term

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are respected and privileged to be those who subordinate themselves to power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• You move on. It's work. Yeah, I'm privileged and paid handsomely and it's not exactly being in a coal mine, but you still work your ass off and you work as hard as you possibly can and you hope that people connect to it and enjoy it.

  Colin Farrell

  Moving, People, Coal

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!” “Of course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. “He killed my mum and dad!” “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Art, Dad, Dark

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• ...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Children, Citizens

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.7, Random House

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