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“I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.”

People Kind Mean Actors Enjoy Hours Differences Half Tvs Research Bigger Privilege Making A Difference Advocacy Thursday

Author:Michael J. Fox

“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.”

Knows Mean Stills Painting Paint Privilege Profession Obsession

Author:Alice Neel

“For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.”

Needs Mean School Joy Students Sells Privilege Obligation

Book:Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement

Source: Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement

“I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.”

Mean Government Pay Arms Bears Taxes Female Privilege Burden Admitting Suffrage

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.”

Ifs Mean Would Be Wealth Numbers Poverty Rich Greater Growing Citizens Fortune Financial Privilege Extremes Granted Divided Exclusive Financial System Extreme Poverty

Author:Denis Diderot

“Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can. We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that's why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred. The American people's hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate, and compromise, and act in the best interests of our nation - one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”