Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.
In 2002, I went to play the Afcon in Mali, and I had the huge privilege to swap my shirt with Marc-Vivien Foe. May his soul rest in peace.
Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
I had the privilege of knowing and working with Norman Borlaug – who has been aptly described by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee as the greatest hunger fighter of our time – for nearly 50 years.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don’t go to school and many of them are in Africa.
If we look upon fulfilling of assignments as building the kingdom of God and as being an opportunity as well as a privilege and an honor, then assignments and challenges should certainly be given to every member of the quorum.
I want nothing to do with privilege.
To give people that first start in life is a tremendous privilege. It’s one of the great joys of being part of a growing company.
It’s a privilege to go and have fun and do what you’re passionate about for a living.
I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played – in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.
We’re trying to democratise financial services, to ensure that management and movement of money is a right for all citizens, not the privilege of the affluent.
Working at Google is a privilege, nothing less.
The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.
It is an honor and a privilege to participate in the Sinai Forum, which has graciously hosted many formidable men and women for the past 60 years.
Having a child has been the most unexpected privilege, as I spent so long on my own thinking it would never happen.
I don’t know if I could go to another run-of-the-mill baseball department and work because it would probably feel like work. In Boston and Chicago, it doesn’t feel like work. It feels like a privilege.
A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
Being with my kids is the best, most fun thing; it’s a privilege.
I was never able to be a part of U.S.A. Basketball in high school or college. So for me, it’s a privilege.
The journey of making ‘Hidden Figures’ has shown me the automatic privilege that all white men are afforded in America in 2017 and in any and every year before that.
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
Recognizing your place of power and privilege in an unfair system can, as an ally, help you to start using that privilege as an opportunity to do good.
Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.
It’s an honor, it’s a privilege to be able to be one of the guys leading your country out, especially in a World Cup. It’s something that you’ll be able to tell your grandkids about.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
It is a great privilege for me to play at Man United, where great players like Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole have played.
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control – I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it’s a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.
It was a privilege to enjoy the national team and be part of a group that gave so much to our country, wear the shirt with great people.
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you’ll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage – quite the opposite.
The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.
I’m not a glory guy or anything like that, but it was such a great pleasure for me to wrestle Bob Backland, the champion at the time. He was such an awesome guy and such a great champion, and it was such a privilege to be able to wrestle him so early on in my WWF career in a title match at Madison Square Garden.
Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone.
I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That’s an unusual privilege but it came out of the fact that I was a middle-class Bengali.
It’s a privilege to act, and you have to protect and cherish it.
It’s an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
It’s a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That’s one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one’s own property is seen as privilege.
The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally – without indicating color or ethnicity – more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity.
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
I’ve been around the block. And I have had the privilege of having been a senior Minister.
It’s an incredible privilege to be the England manager, but when you sit and think about the people who have got to this point before, people I hugely respect and admire… it’s difficult to put it into perspective, really.
The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
My film-making is the privilege of French cinema. I would have to do things totally differently elsewhere. But I think I could learn from that and have fun being part of a bigger collective.
I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.
Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don’t need experts?
I guess because there aren’t many women working in the kind of variety of spaces that I’ve had the opportunity and privilege to kind of work in, that there is this extreme scrutiny about my career.
People go into debt when they judge it beneficial to borrow money against their future earnings. Few can afford to buy a house outright, but many consider it worthwhile to take out a loan, which they will service and pay off over time, for the immediate privilege of living and investing in a house.
I had the privilege of playing an angel on ‘Touched by an Angel’ for many years – almost two decades, and we would deliver a message on the show. The message was that God loves them, and before filming every scene, we would come together and pray.
The shows I’ve been working on, especially ‘Parenthood’ and ‘Friday Night Lights,’ I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that’s a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It’s erroneous to me.
Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.
