Privileged Quotes - Page 21

• When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  18 Copy quote

• We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

  Brian Greene

  Cosmos, Eras, Spirit

  "Is our universe the only universe?". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged

  Azim Premji

  Believe, Trying, World

  72 Copy quote

• The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

  Norman Borlaug

  Agriculture, People, Different

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

  Simon Sinek

  Self, Leader, Needs

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.8, Penguin

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Government, Choices

  4 Copy quote

• I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, Strong, Queens

  "Gordon Brown's First Speech as Prime Minister". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

  Wangari Maathai

  Skills, Role Models, Generations

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.

  Rumi

  Love, Passion, Eye

  6 Copy quote

• Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

  Eric Chaisson

  Unique, Thinking, Special

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.84, Columbia University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.

  Denis Johnson

  Running, People, Interesting

  32 Copy quote

• One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

  Joan Robinson

  Class, Purpose, Welfare

  Essays in the Theory of Employment "An Economist's Sermon" (1937)

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.

  Ephraim Mirvis

  Next, Chiefs, Rabbi

  4 Copy quote

• Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

  Nina Berberova

  Our World, Rooms, Literature

  4 Copy quote

• I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

  Susan Orlean

  Choices, Wish, Doe

  "Bootless" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Country, Grateful, Acceptance

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Genuine Love, Privilege, Affair

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

  Jacky Ickx

  Grateful, Privileged Life

  7 Copy quote

• Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

  Shigeru Ban

  People, House, Architecture

  "Paper Palaces" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2014.

  113 Copy quote

  Show source

• What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Believe, Writing, Journey

  49 Copy quote

• Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

  Margaret Sanger

  Sage, Lessons, Taught

  4 Copy quote

• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the years since I have been a rather privileged writer, I identify more closely than perhaps I should with those social workers. Had I not become a writer that would have been me. Lots of our friends are still in that world and I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the 70s and became disillusioned in the 80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Issues, Years

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel privileged, to be honest.

  Shirley Manson

  Honest, Being Honest, Feels

  "Q&A: Shirley Manson and Butch Vig of Garbage Talk About Their Comeback, and Why Manson was the Lana Del Rey of the 90s". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. March 22, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

  Imelda Marcos

  Looks, Faces, Settling

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source