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• I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

  Tom Brady

  Play, League, Best Coaches

  "Patriots Today - Tom Brady speaks after practice". The Patriots Interview, www.patriots.com. July 31, 2010.

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• As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

  Juliette Binoche

  Giving, Actors, World

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. March 28, 2005.

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• I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Thinking, Complaining

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• The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Heart, Men, Intellect

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• We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mistake, Cnn, World

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• I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an essentially linguistic phenomenon. Whether as a result of simply listening to everyday talk about meaning, or reading books of anthropology, sociology and art history, it dawned on me that there is nothing at all privileged or central about linguistic meaning.

  David E. Cooper

  Art, Reading, Book

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Should, Messy, Position

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Reality, Blood, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Teenage, Couple

  Richelle Mead (2017). “Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Years, Gone, Literature

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• For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Business, People, Giving

  "Sample Chapter of The O'Reilly Factor". Excerpt from "The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, & the Completely Ridiculous in American Life", www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2001.

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• We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist... we are privileged to be alive and nd we should make the most of our time on this world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Inspirational, Thinking, Numbers

  Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

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• There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• In the United States, the day when you pay your taxes is a day of mourning because this alien force - the government - is coming to rob you of your hard-earned money. That's the general attitude, and it's a tremendous victory for the opponents of democracy, and, of course, any privileged sector is going to hate democracy. You can see it in the healthcare debate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Hate, Government

  Source: www.iww.org

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• The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want is the chance to be competitive. That's what I think the museum is supposed to be.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Thinking, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

  James C. Scott

  Gossip, Rumor, World

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

  Clive James

  Essence, Class, Justice

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.

  Jeff Kinney

  Art, Book, Home

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• Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Class, Two, Wish

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• I like to take CEOs into consumers' homes to see the "real world." CEOs have privileged lives with big incomes, lots of help, access to just about anything they wish. The average consumer lives on $53,000 a year and has daily tradeoffs and compromises that must be made. I took a CEO into a trailer park so he could observe first-hand - and understand - how consumers use his product.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Real, Home, Average

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• I think people who work and being alive and paying your bills and feeding your kids is hard. It's hard to have the space. Quite frankly, I'm in a privileged position to think about things, to read about things and to educate myself about things. A lot of people just don't have the time.

  Ellen Page

  Kids, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of the rich variety of alternatives ... Unlike civil laws, economic laws are imposed on people with all the authority of immutable laws of nature. But the economy is created by people, supported by government intervention, regulation, statute and subsidy, and implemented in such a way that it gives substantial wealth and power to a privileged few, while the majority face a life of relentless work, stress and periodic financial insecurity.

  Tony Benn

  Stress, Acceptance, Government Intervention

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• I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Courage, Adversity, Humility

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• Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Ghetto, Average, Black

  Theodore J. Kaczynski (2010). “Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a.”, p.41, Feral House

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• [Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged
  people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Morality, Reason

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