The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
For the last 12 years, I’ve felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It’s so a part of who I am.
I have been privileged during my management career to have won 20 trophies, but winning the FA Cup, which is steeped in so much history, will always be one of the most special achievements of my career.
Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids’ game that grown men get to play. I’m just privileged to get to do that every day.
I don’t think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn’t feel things.
What I definitely don’t like is people calling me or any of my siblings spoilt because we’re not. We are privileged but my parents have never given us wads of cash or designer bags or shoes.
I feel privileged that I’ve been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
For wealthy or privileged students, applying to Ivy League schools or elite schools is sort of expected of them. If you go to a prep school, for example, that’s just what your guidance counsellor tells you.
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents’ families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there’s no fear in what I do. I write books.
We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people’s success. The enemy of upward mobility is apathy and an educational system that offers choice to the privileged and traps the most vulnerable in unsafe and poor performing schools.
I think that anyone who’s pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It’s a luxury.
I enjoy the movies just as much as the next person, I owe my existence and privileged life to it. But I would rather pay for my ticket and watch it in a theater popcorn and cold drink in my hand than swim in the giant fishbowl that is the life of an actor.
Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they’re at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.
The strength of the platform that I am privileged to have is that I reach a massive group of diverse people.
I’ve had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I’ve been privileged to meet and work with.
I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, ‘How come I’m not in New York?’ That being said, I’m older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I’m very grateful for it.
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
In Denmark we’re so privileged. You get money to study, you get money if you’re sick and you get money if your hand hurts. It’s hard to be critical of people who are sick getting money, but in Denmark everyone gets money thrown at them and it makes them lazy.
I have the fear of losing everything. At times, I get these reality checks which make me aware of what a privileged life I lead.
Over the years, I have been privileged to meet many women, men and children who have escaped domestic abuse and who are determined to tell their stories to save others.
I’ve been really privileged to work for two presidents – President Obama and President Clinton – who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.
Femininity in and of itself – and the feminine – can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.
I’d always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I’ve never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I’m not, like, a brat.
I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.
I am privileged and very happy to be a professional sportsperson, but should that make people so angry?
I know that every football fan would love to do my job; get paid to watch football and say it how they see it, and I know I’m in a very privileged position.
I’m doing modeling to stay alive. I don’t enjoy my work. I don’t find it creative. You don’t need brains, and there are no heavy qualifications. All it takes is not to be shy and to dare to make a fool of yourself. But I shouldn’t complain, because I am privileged enough to be overpaid.
People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it’s taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.
I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It’s been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.
My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.
I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.
I’ve always felt really lucky and really privileged with my life, how I grew up, and the opportunities I’ve had.
I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission.
I think each one of us should try and do small things on Diwali so that those who are not as privileged as we are can also have a good festival.
I realize I am very privileged. But there’s a difference between being spoiled and privileged.
Yes, I’ve worked very hard and made sacrifices along the way, but I’m in the very privileged position of doing something that I love every single day – and earning a living from it.
I want my kids to go and see the world and understand they are privileged, but it doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to speak up and see what is happening.
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
I have an enormously privileged position. I make a lot of money – a matter of public record – I have a huge amount of help, and I’m more in control of the day and what I do than someone working shifts on the checkout, or running the produce department in a supermarket.
People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.
I am privileged to have been a part of ‘Zindagi Gulzar Hai.’
I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.
In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change public policy in ways that women with less power don’t have access to.
Spending time in Soweto, and looking at the issues, and experiencing the poverty first-hand, had an enormous impact. I was brought up in a council house in South East London – I didn’t have a privileged or wealthy upbringing – but looking at the scale of the problems there just left me dumbfounded.
In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.
Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.
There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness – a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I’m so privileged that I can live my life in my city.
As a white woman with a privileged education, I’m keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.
I was a privileged observer to be there when Celine Dion opened at Caesars Palace and then the second Gulf War started. It was an odd thing to see the impact both events had on Vegas. The place was riding high after Celine, but overnight, once war was declared, it was deserted.
I’m privileged to occasionally stand on a table, and people listen to what I say, and in those moments, it’s important to me that I have something to say and that I honor it.
