I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that’s not elitist.
The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
For any actor, it’s a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
Prayer is a privilege and the soul’s sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and ‘checklist’ prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept ‘not my will, but Thine, be done.’
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come… It’s an honor and a privilege. I was called and I’ve got to be here.
It’s best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work – it is part of the French privilege.
You represent your country – that’s the biggest honour ever. I had the privilege of doing that for more than 14 years.
Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference and subservience.
The trouble is not that schools don’t work; they do. They’re excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain – and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.
In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I’ve had the privilege of staying at.
I hate to sound jaded, but everything else has become routine and a business – that’s what the music industry has become to me – and I have to remind myself that creating is a privilege.
Boys can essentially wee anywhere, and my very scientific theory is that this privilege leads to some of the mind-blowing confidence they show in later life – for example, the number of guys I’ve known who’ve decided to ‘give comedy a go’ after finding out that I’m a comedian.
Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It’s also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.
The Heisman – it would be a privilege and an honor to receive that award, but at the end of the day, I want to be the best I can be at my position and for my team.
How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.
Blessed be God, that we live in these latter times – the latter times of the reign of darkness and imposture. Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to cooperate with the Saviour in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing his kingdom throughout the world.
It’s true that most people in the trans community don’t have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don’t think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.
No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
Just to be spontaneous and free is life’s biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.
It took me a lot of years on the ‘Burnett’ show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers… no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
When I was a lot younger, I did some work with St. Jude’s, but then we went on a ‘Red Band’ tour across the United States, and we went to a bunch of hospitals and had the privilege of meeting kids who are suffering or going through these different situations.
I always respected Neil Armstrong highly. He was probably the coolest under pressure of anyone I ever had the privilege of flying with. I never saw him flustered.
So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.
But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.
I don’t discount the privilege that comes with being the kid of two very great actors. All I can say is I’m very grateful that I’ve had their examples. And it’s fun to get to share it with them.
I want to thank all my team-mates as well as the opponents in red ball cricket. It has been a privilege to play with and against them.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
I’m very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Well you’re talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
I very happily stand for the right of every man and woman in Pennsylvania to have their voice heard in elections. And when they do have their voice heard, it’s nothing short of a privilege to welcome and respect that voice because this is a democracy, and that’s what we do.
Well, I’ve worked with Republican presidents, obviously, and Democratic presidents since I’ve had the privilege to remain as mayor.
I’m fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.
Kelly Preston is a remarkable human being and a great dramatic actress. It was a privilege as a director to tap into this part of her. Rarely do I make a kind of spiritual connection with my cast. Kelly was a wonderful exception. She is truly very special and I adore her.
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
It’s a privilege and an honor to play for the national team, but I think that the training that I was in at Frankfurt was the highest level right underneath.
At the time of ‘The Epic,’ as a core band, we were all spending so much time apart making music for other people that by the time we got together – even though we grew up together and there’s a special connection we have – it was like a rare privilege to come together.
I don’t regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn’t have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.
I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you’re surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad’s-a-movie-star privilege.
After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.
Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
My association with Cocoon Fertility is beyond just offering hope through assisted fertility. I am asking women to come forward and take charge of their reproductive privilege.
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can… become very onerous indeed.
I believe health care is a right, not a privilege, not something only the wealthiest 1 percent can afford it should have.
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
When you serve, whether it’s here in the House or in the White House or anywhere else, it’s a distinct honor and privilege and so that’s about the extent of it.
The only privilege star kids enjoy is a good launch. That, of course, is important.
The privilege of a free society is that every man, woman, and child has the opportunity – and the obligation as a free people – to determine the trajectory of their country, of a political race.
I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It’s a great privilege.
I like all the types of supposed work that I do. It’s a privilege: I can’t believe I get paid for it.
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
I don’t know what’s going on that I’m hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it’s an honor and a privilege that I’m the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good.
