Privileged Quotes - Page 23

• A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Motivation, Men

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• Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.

  Gilles Dauve

  Fields, Communism, Economy

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• Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Creating, Evil

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, Ch. 20: "The Nature Of Evil", 1953.

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• Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Brother, Exercise, Men

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Class, Irony, Communism

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• Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.

  Johnny Depp

  Feelings, Lucky, Today

  "Johnny Depp Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 1, 2009.

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• Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

  Bobby Scott

  Educational, School, Opportunity

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• The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

  Henry Miller

  History, World, World History

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• In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

  Jerry Springer

  America, Live For Today, Generations

  Interview with Brian Polk, tv.avclub.com. May 12, 2008.

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• I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

  Michael Fassbender

  Crazy, Position, I Can

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• The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

  Martha Williamson

  Grateful, Mean, Doe

  "'Touched by an Angel' producer Martha Williamson has “Delivered” a new hit to Hallmark Channel". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

  Howard Zinn

  Fall, Class, People

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.563, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Dream, People, Born

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• I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love

  Orlando Bloom

  Actors, Feels, Paid

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• The launch of PSLV-C23 fills every Indian's heart with pride and I can see the joy and satisfaction on your faces. Feel privileged to watch this in person.

  Narendra Modi

  Heart, Pride, Technology

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• It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

  Danny Glover

  Color, White, Issues

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• This club is steeped in history and I feel privileged to have become a part of that ... An immense thank you to Sir Alex Ferguson for making it all possible, for giving me the privilege to be a captain, to be inspired by the legend of Manchester United and to understand that nobody is bigger than the club.

  Patrice Evra

  Giving, Alex, Ferguson

  "Patrice Evra writes open letter to Manchester United fans following his move to Juventus" by Simon Austin, www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2014.

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• There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.

  Eddie Vedder

  Night, Smoking, Sitting

  "He Didn't Ask for All This". L.A. Times, May 1, 1994.

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• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Jobs, Women, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You get to go and play with the big boys, it's a very privileged thing for us to do. So I'm sure we have more ideas than what I actually have time for.

  Sam Worthington

  Boys, Play, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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