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I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
Serj Tankian
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Singer-Songwriter
Art
Classical Music
Elitist
Musician
Orchestra
Art Music Great
Classical
Musicians
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Zedillo's lack of political savvy is a personal flaw. But his insulated and elitist governing style reflect the age-old vices of the political system itself.
Denise Dresser
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Elitist
Governing
Savvy
Vices
Age-Old
Flaw
Insulated
Political System
Reflect
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Only in the Orwellian world of double-speak employed by President Barack Obama and billionaire elitist Michael Bloomberg would nonsense be hailed as 'common sense.'
Wayne Lapierre
/
Author
Barack
Common Sense
Elitist
Employed
Nonsense
President Barack Obama
Barack Obama
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Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.
William Hague
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British Politician
Children
Dirty
Elitist
Experts
Labour
Thinking
So-Called
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I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world. Not just economically elitist - how many people read poetry?
Larry Gagosian
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Art Dealer
Elitist
Economically
How Many People
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I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
Alice Waters
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Chef
Elitist
Good Food
Needs
Pesticides
Privilege
Everybody
Good Food Good Food
Deserves
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I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
Kathryn Bigelow
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Film Director
Art World
Cinematic
Elitist
Intriguing
Muscle
Began
Precepts
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I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.
Douglas Coupland
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Novelist
Elitist
Missions
Research
Everywhere
Twice
Miss
Reference
Section
Twice A Week
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The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.
Jack White
/
Singer-Songwriter
Elitist
Guinness
Organization
Scientific
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I am a family man who has children, who is a good person, who cares about women's rights and my kids' rights and education, and I'm not a leftist elitist. I live a very normal life.
Michael Kelly
/
Elitist
Family Man
Good Person
Normal Life
Who Cares
Life Education Family
Cares
Leftist
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Let me make something clear: There are very few things Hollywood is right about. This is a very corrupt, elitist industry that breeds favoritism and fails people up the career ladder.
Lexi Alexander
/
Elitist
Breeds
Me People Right
Corrupt
Fails
Few Things
Ladder
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I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact that opera is seen as elitist and all black ties and that stuff.
Rory Bremner
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Impressionist
Elitist
Enjoyable
Opera
Ties
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Fashion for a long time was very elitist and difficult to get access to. The access I can now provide to my readers live from fashion shows with my iPhone was never, ever possible before.
Imran Amed
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Access
Difficult
Elitist
Iphone
Long Time
Time Long Difficult
Time Long Live
Possible
Provide
Readers
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I'm really nervous about coming off as exclusive or elitist. At the same time, I recognize that when I put out vinyl or an expensive coffee table book not everyone can afford it or listen to it.
Phil Elverum
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Book
Coffee
Elitist
Exclusive
Expensive
Nervous
Vinyl
Afford
Coffee Table
Coming
Recognize
Same Time
Table
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There's something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn't really need much analysis. I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.
Steve Coogan
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Actor
Analysis
Belly
Elitist
Joyful
Smart
Laughs
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For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
Shepard Fairey
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Contemporary Artist
Art World
Aspire
Distaste
Elitist
Great Things
Odds
Structure
Art Great Always
Art Great World
Disconnect
Feeling
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As a freedom-lover and avid outdoorsman, I understand the importance of protecting the Second Amendment, which has been under attack by liberal special interest groups funded by elitist billionaires.
Thom Tillis
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Avid
Elitist
Groups
Importance
Second Amendment
Special Interest Groups
Amendment
Attack
Billionaires
Liberal
Protecting
Special Interest
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The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
William E. Simon
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Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Government
Approach
Elitist
Groups
People
Proclaiming
American Citizen
Government Today People
Aware
Citizen
Relatively
Purposes
Small Group
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
Beck
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Musician
Elitist
Performing
Related
Rock Star
Star
Rock
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What's going on for half the country? Who's lost out? The victims of elitist agenda; standing up for them, being a voice for them. That's the idea behind positive populism, that's what drives the content.
Steve Hilton
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Elitist
Standing
Content
Drives
Standing Up
Victims
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I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.
Tommy Lee Jones
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Actor
East
East Coast
Elitist
Harvard
Ideas
No Idea
People
Wealthy
Image
Lee
The Only Thing
Tommy
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It is neither racist nor elitist to say publicly what every rational person believes privately - that if you don't know anything about a subject, you ought not to raise your hand or cast a ballot on the matter.
Tom Tancredo
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Former United States Representative
Elitist
Ought
Rational
Ballot
Believes
Privately
Publicly
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My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.
Michael Ian Black
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Comedian
Sports
All Things
Awards
Boring
Documentaries
Elitist
Quiet
Scrabble
Shows
Snob
Tv Shows
Unassuming
Tv
Arty
Bands
Tastes
Players
Towards
Lean
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What Bloomberg and his elitist cronies will never understand is what saves the Second Amendment is the tidal wave of support from the majority of the American people. And decade after decade, NRA has been their voice.
Wayne Lapierre
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Author
Elitist
Nra
Second Amendment
Wave
Amendment
American People
Decade
Voice People Will
Saves
Tidal
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Sometimes we all gain this elitist status mentally that inhibits us from being the kid that got you there in the first place, and I never want to inhibit that youthful demeanor. I think it's a very big part of success.
Joe Maddon
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Baseball Manager
Demeanor
Elitist
Mentally
Big Part
First Place
Gain
Inhibit
Status
Youthful
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For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.
Michel Onfray
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Philosopher
Compulsory
Conducting
Conversation
Discipline
Elitist
Establishment
Philosophy
School
University
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I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked - and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself.
Brianna Wu
/
Academic
Class
Elitist
Involved
My Own
Party
Taken
Myself Look See
As Far As
Far
Liberal
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'Boom Bang a Bang' was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didn't relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didn't want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.
Lulu
/
Singer
Elitist
Huge
Psychological
Relish
Snob
Child
Me Things Want
Bit
Bang
Boom
Huge Part
Maybe
Perhaps
Reasons
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But if you look at Victoria's Secret models, honestly, young girls don't necessarily look up to them for the healthiest reasons. It's more about the envy, the desire to look aesthetically best: it's an unattainable, elitist mindset.
Carmen Carrera
/
Girl
Desire
Elitist
Envy
Honestly
Mindset
Models
Secret
Unattainable
Victoria
Victoria's Secret
Young
Aesthetically
Necessarily
Reasons
Young Girls
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Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.
Robert Trujillo
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Bassist
Elitist
Fusion
Music Myself Day
Bass Player
Gravitate
Instrumental
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When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?
Nick Hornby
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Novelist
Elitist
Giving Up
Special Needs
Ulysses
Include
Laureate
Poet Laureate
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I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.
Lulu
/
Singer
American Music
Black
British
Elitist
Successful
Trying
Music Me More
Became
Before
Liked
Singer
Music Black Me
Pop
Pop Singer
Though
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My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.
Rupert Murdoch
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Business Person
New York
Challenges
Elitist
New York Times
Paper
Picks
Worry
Huge Influence
Local
Network
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
Yoko Ono
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Artist
Acceptable
Ballet
Dirt
Elitist
Expression
Higher
Movement
People
Thinking
People More Than
Cultural
Possibly
Some People
Trained
Untrained
Whereas
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I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.
Tony Judt
/
Historian
Communist
Elitist
Tunes
Typical
University
Jewish
Male
Me New Feel
Edge
Liberal
Regarded
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I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.
Diane Warren
/
Songwriter
Elitist
Love Is
Mass
Melody
Love Great Music
Appeal
Love Music Great
Great Song
Hits
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September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.
Rory Stewart
/
Academic
Elitist
Heroism
September
September 11th
Tamed
Heroes
Diminished
Fantasies
Freed
Miniature
Produced
Risked
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In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.'
Molly Ivins
/
Columnist
Government
Attention
Bureaucracy
Elitist
Example
Usage
Rules
Considered
Correct
Fiscal
For Example
Word
Normally
Physical
Suspend
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For a writer, New York works well. Literary work is very elitist. I worked two hours a day, maximum, and the time after that was very agreeable. I walked a lot with pleasure. Those two hours augmented the day. I wrote more here than in Paris, an entire chapter of a new novel.
Ismail Kadaré
/
Writer
Elitist
Maximum
Time Work Day
Agreeable
Augmented
Chapter
Literary
Work Time Day
Literary Work
Walked
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Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.
Chris Klein
/
Actor
Opportunity
Good
Elitist
Enough
Not Good Enough
Smart
Want
Way
Good Opportunity Enough
Because
Very
Big
Good Opportunity Your
Big Enough
Take
Every
Working
Every Opportunity
Whatever
Say
Lightly
Opportunities
Seriously
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Penguin became less of a publisher for all different kinds of people and increasingly became the paperback publisher for the best-educated people, those people who shopped at bookstores. That proved perhaps not only to be rather elitist, but it also proved not to be good business.
Peter Mayer
/
Bookstores
Different Kinds
Elitist
Good Business People
Business Good People
Increasingly
Paperback
Penguin
Perhaps
Proved
Publisher
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
Harmony Korine
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Film Director
Elitist
Malls
Big Way
Hopes
Rarefied
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Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.
Forest Whitaker
/
Actor
Chalk
Elitist
Film
Form
Painting
Sculpture
Accessible
Art Form
Easily
Medium
Rock
Pen
Pick
Piece
Stick
So Much Money
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You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor, on the other hand, is broad, soothing, positive, inclusive, and smutty - to make sure everybody gets it. Pretending to be humorous is easy, and a great many people are doing it.
Florence King
/
Novelist
Positive
Humor
Cynical
Dry
Easy
Elitist
Fake
Humorous
Impossible
Soothing
Subtle
Wit
Sure
Broad
Pretend
Inclusive
Gets
Hand
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Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the money you spend on opera tickets to homeless charities, and vow never to go to anything that can be considered elitist again.
Howard Jacobson
/
Author
Articles
Attacking
Conscience
Elitist
Homeless
Labour
Labour Party
Opera
Privileged
Tickets
Vow
Charities
Go Away
Join
Rarely
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai
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Political Activist
Men
Acceptable
Ashamed
Educated
Elitist
Feelings
Following
Innocent
People
Vilify
Good Men Women
African
Good Women Men
Project
Highly
Persecute
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To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.
John Ridley
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Screenwriter
Admitting
Appeals
Argument
Critics
Elitist
Food Stamps
Harvard
Lucky
Racism
Stamps
Obama
Certainly
Involves
Populace
Season
Seem
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Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put.
Mitch Kapor
/
Conditions
Cyberspace
Elitist
Mass
Primitive
Audiences
Communities
Decentralized
Egalitarian
Extraordinarily
Frontier
Hierarchical
Individuals
Purposes
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There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Author
Bully
Drinkers
Elitist
People
This Generation
Wine
Family Always Together
Bringing
Generation
Punch
Spectator
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One of the big drivers for me is that health care is a very elitist system. As much as we try to make it free and democratic for all, the reality is that it's expensive and not all therapies are accessible to all people. So I have been very focused on making sure that we democratize genetic information so it's available to everyone.
Anne Wojcicki
/
Biologist
Available
Drivers
Elitist
Expensive
Health Care
All People
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