All Elite really just wanted to provide an alternative for people who were looking for anything different, and what we offer is some of the best talent in the entire world – male and female.
The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy elite.
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy’s vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.
If you can prove that you’re in that elite class on a consistent basis, it speaks volumes about a player’s longevity. It also says that as a player, you were steady, stable, and great and that you deserve to be recognized.
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country – something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning – is the all-powerful elite narrative.
I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.
If you’re a talented player, and you’re 20 years old, you should be playing in the UEFA Champions League or in the elite European teams like AC Milan, Juventus, or Chelsea.
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, creates the illusion of great progress.
The elite private tutor is typically ivy-educated and falls into one of two categories – a twenty-something pursuing an artistic career on the side, or someone older who has made a career out of college-prep. They are presentable, well-spoken, and are treated by doormen as guests more than as employees.
For longer than I’ve been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
The elite isn’t leading anymore. It’s trapped.
The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.
I’m not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.
If you’re white working class, it’s very easy to caricature the elites, and if you’re elite, it’s very easy to caricature the white working class.
I want to be one of the elite fighters in the world.
Let’s face it: if you’re an elite basketball player and you choose to be socially and politically active, it could harm your brand.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.
I have been around a long time and shared some very elite company.
There’s a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It’s not easy to get a good job with good actors.
The only way we’re going to keep America safe is to have an elite military, all right.
Simply because I did not fit in their mold of what an independent working woman should be, the media and political elite have sought to relegate my sense of civic responsibility to mere sideshow antics.
People who become ‘elite’ at what they do aren’t striving to be ‘elite’ just to join some special club. They take great joy and satisfaction in the pursuit of mastery, and they compete against themselves, not others.
