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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. We were all encouraged to believe that the classics of the theater were the fiery hoops through which you`d have to pass if you were going to have any self-esteem as a performer. It never occurred to me that that was the case. One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. The great tradition of liberalism in England is essentially a sponge that absorbs all possibility of change. America looked different to me: the idea of America as a place of infinite possibilities was defined for me through the movies. I`m glad I did the classical work that I did, but it just wasn`t for me. I`m a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that`s the most obvious.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

(When asked if he received any special privileges upon becoming a knight): Alas, no. In the old days I believe you at least got a couple of horses out of the deal.

- Rex Harrison

My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln`s convictions, his vision, and his toughness.

- Gregory Peck

(Explaining why he supports a mandatory military draft) "We, the people, should participate in the privileges we have in this democracy that we live in, and we should all share in the dangers and the risks with our lives to protect the freedoms that we have. I don`t see how our young men can feel they`re part of the country if they don`t participate in the defense of the country - in the defense of our values - when it`s necessary to do so. I feel, strongly, that by excluding themselves, they sacrifice something integral. They separate themselves from the hero`s journey - this journey we all must take to find ourselves."

- Harvey Keitel

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

- Sophie Marceau

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

- Bill Nelson

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

- Phyllis Schlafly

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- Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination.

- Betty Friedan

We have always been strongly opposed to anything that would threaten the separate identities of the British football associations and that has not and will not change. The present set-up has been around, in our case, since 1873 and we have separate privileges within FIFA and UEFA. From a football perspective, that is more important than participation in an Olympic Games.

- David Taylor

I was given visitation privileges, and I take advantage of it. Our dogs are like our de facto kids.

- Doug Taylor

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

- John L. Lewis

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

- Aidan Troy

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man`s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

- Akinobu Okada

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

- Al Melanson

We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

- Alfred Platt

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

- Allan Andersen

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

- Allie Savarino

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

- Amir Orad

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

- Andrew Dornenburg

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

- Andrew Feldman

She tried to educate herself about issues that would make life better for other people in society that didn`t have the privileges and opportunities that she did.

- Annie Davis

(Details of that extravagance are drawn from Kim`s former lackeys.) For all the immense privileges enjoyed by ... those who ruled the Soviet Union and China, they did not aspire to a live a life completely alien to their countrymen, ... They did not show signs of a consuming desire to emulate the tastes of a jet-set billionaire.

- Armon Bassett

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people`s money

- John Randolph

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

- Andy Gates

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.

- Immanuel Kant

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace

- John Owen

"I think it`s one of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make them think about their lives, or make them laugh or make them cry or make them understand something. Or just make them feel something because I think so many of us, including myself, spend too much time not feeling enough, you know?"

- Gerard Butler