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Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.
In 2002, I went to play the Afcon in Mali, and I had the huge privilege to swap my shirt with Marc-Vivien Foe. May his soul rest in peace.
The biggest honor is to be an astronaut. It's such a tremendous privilege to be able to represent humankind in our quest to explore space.
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.
I thank the voters of Upstate N.Y. for this privilege to serve and pledge to continue to work tirelessly on their behalf in this final term.
...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.
What a profound privilege to go from one who took the oath from a judge to one who now is in the position to administer the oath as a judge.
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
I feel blessed and lucky with my family, not because of the privilege, of course, I'm grateful for that as well that we never wanted anything.
I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.
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.
I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
It's definitely a privilege to be able to do what you love to do; it's not something that everyone gets to do, so I feel really good about that.
I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.
Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?
I have loved Jesus my whole life, and it has been such a privilege for me. To be able to marry my work and God together has been such a blessing.
No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of the fact that I was a middle-class Bengali.
We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.
I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.
I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.
I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.
It was a privilege and an honor to work alongside Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Working with people at the top of their game was like a master class.
There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.
You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
Recognizing your place of power and privilege in an unfair system can, as an ally, help you to start using that privilege as an opportunity to do good.
The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.
I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift.
As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.