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“My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.”

Parent Class Middle Position Backgrounds Combination Odd Middle Class Privileged Working Class Upbringing

Author:Denise Mina

“I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career.”

Knows Done Play Careers Position Fairs Code Captains Privileged Fair Play Fifa

Author:David Beckham

“Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.”

Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

“Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.”

Mind Black Position Accounts Population Not Sure Abortion Aspire Privileged

Author:Alan Keyes

“Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.”

Seeing Position Right Now Music Is Deserve Elites Globes Privileged

Author:Tom Morello

“One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.”

Purpose Class Plans Effects Position Economics Traditional Welfare Orthodox Privileged Explaining

Author:Joan Robinson

“It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.”

Men Mind Heart Position Privilege Characteristics Privileged Heart And Mind Depraved

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.”

Thinking Said Feelings Beautiful Growing Up Growing New York Position Grew Grew Up Towns Grateful Privileged Jersey Worldview New Jersey Great Education

Author:Anne Hathaway

“There are very few lows but lots and lots of highs. You're in an incredibly privileged position because you're able to go along to major sporting events and be ringside. You can see and hear everything.”

Able Events Position Majors Lows Privileged Sporting Events

Author:Jill Douglas

“Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.”

People Thinking World Art Artist Struggle Successful Position International Privileged Cuba Cuban Art World

Author:Rachael Price

“When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.”

World Trying Position Assuming Privileged Unwise

Author:Jim Holt

“Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts.”

Thinking Giving Whole Tree Position Discipline Fundamentals Metaphysics Privileged Zoos

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.”

Trying Position Privileged

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky