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My family taught me radical politics from the beginning, but I also learned to prove myself in elite institutions.
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
I love competition and people who are elite at what they do, and I'm a huge Cleveland Cavaliers and Buffalo Bills fan.
The Democratic Party's governing elite has long believed there is no problem that European-style policies cannot cure.
There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.
Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.
Once you're a NASCAR champion, you're kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.
What I hope is that politics shouldn't be dominated by the pro-Chinese elite; it should be related to everyone's daily life.
Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.
I really hope with New Japan - I was really considered a tag team guy, Killer Elite Squad had an amazing run for seven years.
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.
There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.
Let's face it: if you're an elite basketball player and you choose to be socially and politically active, it could harm your brand.
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
In football, you never know what can happen tomorrow. This is the elite, and you have to be ready for any situation that can occur.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.
David Tua was an elite and world class heavyweight, I believe David Tua would have knocked Joseph Parker out in a handful of rounds.
I think we are just so far away from the political elite. Whether you are on one side or the other, you're still part of that group.
Jetsetting is now not the privilege of the elite so much as a veritiginous mundanity for a permanently dispossessed global workforce.
It is not a cliche to say golf is for the well-off. It is the reality. But the old system which used to make it elite is fading away.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
If there were 3,000 people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the musical education would be so much better than this little elite thing.
In elite gymnastics, I was surrounded by this bubble, that gymnastics was literally all I knew, and I'd like to know about worldly issues.
Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics.
Scott Skiles was a master tactician - they're all masters, but he is elite. He knew how to manipulate his team from an X's-and-O's standpoint.
You cannot get complacent because there's someone out there working harder than you. So you got to keep pushing yourself to be an elite player.
All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.
Oh, I live in London. So, whether I like it or not, I am a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else in the country, I'd hate me.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
The message bombarding young adults from the leftist cultural elite is clear; you should think for yourself... by adopting my beliefs as your own.
If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.
The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy elite.
When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.
I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character.
A super rich elite have emerged thanks to the lack of law and order, and thanks to the lack of jurisdiction over the transfers of international wealth.
You look at all the elite players around the League, the guys that are responsible defensively, the guys that can score at will, they kind of do it all.
Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.