Privilege Quotes

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I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had… — Kenneth Branagh
Health care is a right, not a privilege. — Edward Kennedy
Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day… — Spencer W. Kimball
Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and while he… — James Otis
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations. — Thomas Goodwin
If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it… — Wilford Woodruff
Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege. — Hannah Hurnard
Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive. — Amy Poehler
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and… — Benjamin Disraeli
And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either… — Philippe Perrin
I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that… — Henry Adams
We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to… — Silvan Shalom
We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege. — Upton Sinclair
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We… — Jodi Rell
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. — Nahum Tate
This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on… — Debbie Gibson
Strange to wake-up this morning as a former ODI cricketer, but it's been a great honour and privilege playing for Sri Lanka during the past… — Kumar Sangakkara
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power… — Adrienne Rich
Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated… — Francois Arago

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