Privileged Quotes - Page 16

• poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

  Vernon Lee

  Poetry, Mind, Depth

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• It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly. And I couldn't help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and the decency of the people back in my own community.

  Samuel Alito

  Smart, College, People

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

  William Joyce

  Class, Jew, Regard

  William Joyce's speech at Chiswick (1934) as quoted in Francis Selwyn "Hitler's Englishman: Crime of Lord Haw-Haw" (p. 43), 1987.

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• I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Character, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

  Russell Crowe

  Artist, Thinking, Lines

  "American Gangster - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Self, Feelings, Musician

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

  Alanis Morissette

  Buckets, Next, Enough

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

  Edward Norton

  Uncles, Thinking, Parent

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• Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

  Bill Moyers

  Struggle, Ordinary, Citizens

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• Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Enterprise, Free Enterprise, Private Enterprise

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• Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

  Emily Blunt

  Actresses, Lucky, Sandwiches

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• Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.

  Marjorie Grene

  Thinking, Self, Attention

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

  Charlize Theron

  Sex, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

  Cillian Murphy

  Moving, Years, Television

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.

  George Saunders

  Lying, Media, Data

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• "Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Reality, Men, Class

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet, from the moment they get to campus - and now, even earlier - an endless stream of propaganda tells them otherwise. They are offered safe spaces and healing circles to help them cope with the ravages of a phantom patriarchy.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Healing, College, Circles

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Mines, Honored

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Trying, Position

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was actually Frida's [Farell] story and she was trusting me to tell it. I felt very privileged.

  Rudolf Buitendach

  Interesting, Stories, Scripts

  Source: variety.com

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• I'm kind of grateful that I didn't have any real success until I was older and basically out of high school. I think that was a real confidence boost for me, having it all start that way, in that very privileged position of having him vouch for me.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Real, Grateful, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.

  Carlos Eire

  Korea, Soul, Everyday

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• I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.

  Judith Rodin

  Years, Foundation, Lasts

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• What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five kids. So I had the great advantage of being able to play up to the older kids and play down to the younger kids and I think that's part of what propelled me to become a teacher at some point in my life. But it was a comfortable childhood. It was a privileged childhood.

  Bill Ayers

  Teacher, School, Kids

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

  Marco Rubio

  Citizens, Humans, Human History

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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