Quotes About Elitists

#1. The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Brian Grazer

#2. I try to not be or associate with elitists.

Michael Keaton

#3. Our education system is today run by left-wing elitists who believe the US is too big, too arrogant, and must be reigned-in ... Real sad.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#4. Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

Amy Ridenour

#5. There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

Daisaku Ikeda

#6. Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

Keith Olbermann

#7. Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

Will Shetterly

#8. Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

#9. I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive.

Jack Kelly

#10. I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live.
Where's that?
Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there.

John McCain

#11. I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Neil Cavuto

#12. If anything should offend a minority, that's it: a bunch of elitists telling them, 'You can't possibly succeed unless we give you a head start.' And yet the politicians who say that always get the bulk of the minority vote.

Larken Rose

#13. Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

Oscar Hijuelos

#14. It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

David Ignatius

#15. No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

Cal Thomas

#16. So, fuck 'em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We're GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud to wear that brand painted on the backs of our biker's jackets.

Hal Duncan

#17. A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

Cam Newton

#18. I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'

Steven Spielberg

#19. You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.

Oprah Winfrey

#20. He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties ... broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#21. My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Andrew Cuomo

#22. We need to be confident. We need not to blink.

Sebastian Coe

#23. Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.

Vladimir Nabokov

#24. Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

Caitlin Flanagan

#25. The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

Galt Niederhoffer

#26. For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

Empedocles