Entitled Quotes - Page 9

• There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

  Leonard Read

  Term, Willing, Offers

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• To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

  Jason Aldean

  Song, Cutting, Records

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• Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.

  John C. Reilly

  Hollywood, Actors, Stuff

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• There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Teacher, Taught, Reason Why

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2006). “The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers”, p.155, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Transcendentalism, He Man

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1225, Delphi Classics

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• I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.

  Theodore Bikel

  Simple, Glimpse, World

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• Everybody knows we're entitled to one Jerusalem. History reveals very simply that this is our land from the days of the Bible.

  Jackie Mason

  Land, Jerusalem, Knows

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• We call upon priesthood bearers to store sufficient so that you and your family can weather the vicissitudes of life. Please see to it that those entrusted to your watchcare receive these two pamphlets entitled All Is Safely Gathered In. Exhort them to prepare now for rainy days ahead.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Rainy Day, Weather, Two

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• I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism.

  Elif Safak

  Government, Democracy, Majority

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

  Bo Burnham

  Song, Kings, Pirate

  Song: I'm Bo Yo

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• In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten.

  Woody Allen

  Choices, Kitchen, Earth

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.

  Barbra Streisand

  Stars, People, Talent

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• The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

  Harry S. Truman

  Powerful, Thinking, Play

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Race, Color, Justice

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1138, Best Books on

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• Remember, presidents and bishops, that the callings of your associates are just as divinely inspired as is yours, and they are therefore entitled to inspiration in their specific responsibilities. Lean upon them. Learn from them. Love them. Listen to them.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Inspiration, Responsibility, President

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• Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Whispering, Spirit, Revelations

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• The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  Historical, Bears, Foundation

  Joyce Lee Malcolm (1996). “To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right”, p.163, Harvard University Press

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• I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

  Neal Stephenson

  Dirt, Consideration, Pursuit

  Neal Stephenson (1994). “Snow Crash”, p.481, Penguin UK

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• I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.

  Frank Lowy

  Paid

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• The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Clever, Men, Law

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it will not be denied, that tyrants of every age and sect are the best entitled to such infernal abodes.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Tyrants, Enemy

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• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services, or money from the government without earning them. The onlookers easily adopt an attitude that they, too, are entitled to such transfers. They have fewer examples of hardworking, self-reliant people in their families or neighborhoods.

  Robert Higgs

  Children, Attitude, Government

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