#privileged

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#came #century #come #did #eight

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#customary #epoch #law #order #privileged

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#celebrity #i #i am #privileged #very

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#cat #clinton #clinton administration #example #finished

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#access #cannot #far #privileged #removed

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#citizen #greatest #history #human #human history

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#become #democrats #eat #encourage #get

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions? ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#before #class #could #country #doing

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#been #centuries #century #class #fun

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#graham #i #last #last year #martha