Sense Of Entitlement Quotes - Page 2

• I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game.

  R.A. Dickey

  Awards, Games, Want

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• I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups," which is a repugnant attitude any way one chooses to look at it. I definitely believe in the possibility of happiness, though; it's just something that I think, rightfully, is rare in its genuine form, and that it can't be counterfeited.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Attitude, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.

  David Elkind

  Good Life, Children, Work

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• Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

  Moby

  Careers, People, Musician

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Vikings, Entitlement, Provision

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds - and I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that’s not how it works in Arkansas.

  Mark Pryor

  Country, Thinking, Giving

  "Is Cotton Putting It Away?" by Ramesh Ponnuru, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2014.

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• There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.

  Moby

  Musician, Actors, Saving

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Males, Gamer, Entitlement

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• ...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

  Steve Martin

  World, Aspens, Entitlement

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids.

  Mary Blakely

  Husband, Divorce, Kids

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

  Linda Vester

  Confidence, School, Emotional

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• A millionaire is a person who is free, who does what she loves, who has unlimited materials, her choice of tools, abundance, inspiration, freedom and an inflated sense of entitlement to have, create and get more.

  Sara Genn

  Inspiration, Choices, Doe

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• I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

  Neil Strauss

  Stars, Rocks, Entitlement

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• Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Husband, Years

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• What ends up getting this Stephen Lerner guy in the mind-set that he's in is his sense of entitlement. So he wants a college education. He wants it, he should have it. It shouldn't cost him anything. And the people who provide it certainly shouldn't be getting rich because a college education he thinks is an entitlement.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

  Joshua Homme

  Hate, Playing Music, Entitlement

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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