As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to make sacrifices and step up to the plate. I’m very proud that my parents happened to be people who did. They were not privileged to have a formal education.
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
I feel so lucky and so privileged that I like writing for myself. Like, I don’t have to wait for somebody to create a part for me or a project for me. I can just do it. And that’s so great.
I’m ashamed to say that I’m from a very privileged background.
I have a very, very normal life. I really do – with the exception of being very lucky and privileged. I have two children, a dog, and a husband. We live in New York, the kids go to school, and we’re fortunate that we have flexible schedules. I like that. That’s what I want.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I’m on stage they’re not privileged to see me. It’s a privilege for me to see them.
I am always aware that I’ve had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents… They treated us like adults.
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.
I don’t hear women who are less privileged thinking they’re entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That’s a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.
We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the people as a whole rather than a privileged few.
I don’t like laughing at people unless they’re in a privileged position or if they’re in authority. If it’s poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I’d rather be laughing with them.
I think the ‘Law of Attraction’ comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.
I’ve had some bad experiences, but I’ve also been lucky and I just feel so privileged to be able to even make films.
As a firm believer in the power of songwriting, I feel privileged to be part of a team that continues to help us all understand the true force and impact of lyrics and music around the world. Genius is special – it’s remixing the digital playbook and owning a new space in music and tech.
I’m blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
I am privileged to have the kind of platform I do and the kind of support I do. A lot of women in this country don’t have that.
I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
I was very privileged to enjoy The Queen Mother’s company on many occasions. She was relaxed and informal – she would just sit down for a chat.
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation’s part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
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.
In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls from birth. Equal opportunity and access for both girls and boys must become the norm.
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys’ network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours’ kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone’s job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged – I don’t buy that at all.
Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland’s brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in the Ryan and Murphy Reports.
If the privileged in society can use that privilege to privilege others, then the consequences can be tremendous.
My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It’s a place filled with sun, close to the beach.
Haiti’s economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.
The football world needs to live by its promises and live by the diversity codes. They need to be promoting opportunities for the less privileged. That’s what I want to see.
I know that I am not owed the right to make movies. I know God has given me this privileged position, and I have to work dog-hard as an actor to make the films the best they can be.
I’ve been very lucky – I don’t come from a privileged upbringing.
We earned the ‘Line of Duty’ audience’s loyalty over a number of years, and I feel privileged to have that.
In 2016, I worked on a film called ‘Love Sonia,’ which was based on human trafficking. While researching on it, I came to understand how privileged I am.
This is not a slow movement of change. It’s a shift in the consciousness of each of us. It is a collective shift. It involves facing grief and trauma and undoing our numbness and our narcissism and our indulgence that we have in this privileged western society.
Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
We’ve all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You’re not allowed to criticise it.
I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it’s done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man’s life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.
You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let’s be honest. He’s also an actor. And he’s classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.
The service meant so much to me. You don’t know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
As footballers we are in a really privileged position so it’s good to give back to the community.
I think I’ve had a very privileged life.
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class – a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public’s masters. No wonder the public is upset.
Every time I walked into White Hart Lane, I got goosebumps. I felt so privileged to play there, to make the people happy.
I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.
I feel extremely lucky and privileged to have my achievements.
I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.
We’re privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.
To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it’s all-encompassing.
