#elite

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#bowlers #cultural #elite #people #vote

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#cancer #club #elite #gave #having

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#corruption #countries #elites #framework #operate

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#elite #everybody #his #mozart #music

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over. ↗

— Krysten Ritter

#bus #elite #four #go #high

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#elite #europe #like #more #much

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#before #elite #innovation #need #public

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#elite #i #long #more #observed

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#accomplished #after #already #blessing #continued