#privileged

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#feel #i #i feel #i love #love

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#classes #give #happens #only #privileged

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#destroyed #elite #large #must #part

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. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#device #extinction #government #maintaining #people

There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa. ↗

— Daryn Kagan

#bands #behalf #better #biggest #define

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. ↗

— Helen Keller

#appears #compare #comparing #fellow #fellow men

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. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#call #corrupt #down #face #frivolous

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#certain #documents #excess #far #insert

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#current #debate #deprive #desperately #educational

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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