#privilege

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#been #creative #creative life #educated #grow

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#audience #done #friends #howl #mind

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India. ↗

— Aly Khan

#against #ago #decade #emergence #existence

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. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#breach #committed #had #here #house

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#being #lifetime #privilege #who #you

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#confined #human #human species #laughter #privileges

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#discontent #economic #economic growth #economists #fact

I want nothing to do with privilege. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#nothing #privilege #want

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up? ↗

— Bob Geldof

#children #having #having children #part #point

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#against #amateur #back #because #discrimination