Privileged Quotes
399 quotes by 362 authors
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A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the…
— Michael Parenti
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The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement…
— Emile Argand
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Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it…
— Evgeny Kissin
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I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience,
— John Toshack
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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
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Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able…
— Tom Cruise
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The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was…
— Lana Turner
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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…
— Howard Zinn
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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
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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
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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love
— Orlando Bloom
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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…
— Danny Glover
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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…
— Patrice Evra
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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…
— Eddie Vedder
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different…
— Salman Rushdie
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I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the…
— Margaret Sanger
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What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like…
— Gilles Deleuze
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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
Who Wrote These Privileged Quotes
362 authors contributed a total of 399 Privileged Quotes, led by these top contributors: