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• I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Thinking, Use

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?

  James Inhofe

  Believe, Mean, Talking

  "Meet the Republicans’ Top Guy on the Environment, James Inhofe" by Juliet Lapidos, takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com. November 12, 2014.

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• The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.

  Jerry Springer

  Differences, People, Speak

  Interview with Rebecca Hardy, Daily Mail 'Weekend' magazine, June 27, 2009.

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• In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.

  William A. Henry III

  Dream, Mean, Vision

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• Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).

  Larry Sanger

  Mean, Community, Disrespect

  "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin.org, December 31, 2004.

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• In the early 21st century, it is easy to condemn the Bond books for being racist and imperialist, sexist and misogynist, elitist and sadistic. But this is merely another way of saying that we cannot understand the Bond books without reference to the personality, the outlook and the 'Tory imagination' of the man who wrote them, and to the time in which he wrote them; and that we cannot understand the 1950s and 1960s without some reference to them, and to him.

  David Cannadine

  Book, Men, Imagination

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• Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Ideas, Doe

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• No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

  Cal Thomas

  Country, Thinking, Diversity

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• It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made it easier to basically shaft everybody in the country, which it's been doing for the last thirty years. It has also sort of made it more difficult for England to fulfill its destiny, which in my mind is creating a multi-ethnic, multicultural society that is truly at the head of that post-imperial commonwealth ideal. I think that that's what England should be and that that's the kind of nation we should be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Country, Destiny, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Political change does not really lead to any fundamental change for most of the people, indeed because politics (even if it calls itself democratic) is elitist and barred to most people, so it is necessary to look to new movements outside of "politics."

  Nigel Gibson

  People, Political, Doe

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• What I'm critical of is - the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we're elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn't qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I'm starting to feel sort of bad about - about saying that. And I'm annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.

  Ann Coulter

  White, House, Annoyed

  "Ann Coulter on the Harriet Miers Nomination". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2005.

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• I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

  Steve Coogan

  Smart, Laughing, Crowds

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 17, 2009.

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• The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the benefit. It's a stupid way to do politics. Economic issues can more often be addressed concretely, and it would seem logical for people to vote their interests in this area.

  Timothy Noah

  Stupid, Often Is, Issues

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.

  Newt Gingrich

  Internet, Free Speech, Broadcasting

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• If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Believe, Branches, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Sports, Player, Winning

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.

  Michael Haneke

  Liars, Hypocrite, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.

  Billie Jean King

  People, Want, Feels

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Trying, Exclusive

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• I try to make things that are not elitist. There's enough places in the world where we're excluded. I do not ever want to be contributing to that. I want to be contributing to opening the doors and gates for women.

  Amanda de Cadenet

  Doors, Trying, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.

  Lester Bangs

  Rocks, Arise, Should

  Lester Bangs (1980). “Blondie”, Touchstone

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• We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Greatness, Civilization

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.115, Vintage

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• I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Believe, Democracy, Populist

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

  Frank Gehry

  Unique, Signatures, Different

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.

  Jason Brennan

  Running, Skills, Radio

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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