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• I ran for president because I wanted to help Lithuania and its people during a difficult time. My country was on the very edge of an economic crisis, and people were disappointed by the economic situation and the political elite. We all needed change and motivation to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome the difficulties.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, Motivation, Order

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Views, Talking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

  Sheldon Richman

  Looks, May, Acknowledge

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• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  Lesley Garrett

  Artist, Media, Groups

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• Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.

  George Gilder

  Government, Order, Top Down

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• Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

  John Walford

  Art, Sides, Failing

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• Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

  Tom Lantos

  Political, Generations, Information

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• Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Democracy, Equal

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• It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Benefits, Force, Standing

  "Are women human?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2006.

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• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  Vernor Vinge

  Humanity, Fractions, Domain

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Presentation at VISION-21 Symposium, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 1993.

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• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  N. T. Wright

  Writing, Biblical, Discipline

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?

  Jon Stewart

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

  "Opting Out of Reality for Jesus" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2013.

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• The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.

  James Morcan

  Running, Mean, Reality

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• I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

  Shepard Smith

  Kids, Example, Educated

  "Fox News' Shepard Smith Explains What's 'Right' About His Network (Q&A)". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.

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• All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.

  Howard E. Wasdin

  Team, Two, Mind

  "'SEAL Team Six' And Other Elite Squads Expanding". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 9, 2011.

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• I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

  Shepard Smith

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.

  Ken Salazar

  Dream, Growing Up, Believe

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• What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

  Lesley Garrett

  Artist, People, Able

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• In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.

  Peter Greenaway

  Dream, Desire, Looks

  "Rome Interview: Peter Greenaway On ‘Goltzius And The Pelican Company,’ Sergei Eisenstein, 3D & The Future Of Cinema" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  Larry Elder

  Law, Benefits, Poor

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• I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

  Todd Gitlin

  United States, Able, Process

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  Taylor Hackford

  People, Special, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

  Julia Leigh

  Athlete, Elite Athletes, Concentration

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• If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

  Ken Auletta

  Ivy, League, Valleys

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• The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Self, People, All Time

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