Quotes About Nepotism

#1. The word nepotism comes, in fact, from nipote, Italian for nephew.

Ross King

#2. Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

Jeff Bridges

#3. The nepotism there is the stuff of legend ... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

Graham Linehan

#4. The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

Robert Fisk

#5. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our 'ethical behavior,'" he argued. "It's pure biology.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6. Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had.

James Woods

#7. For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

Jeff Bridges

#8. It's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.

Franklin Foer

#9. Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

Vikram Chatwal

#10. My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

Jennifer Aniston

#11. Congress Mukt Bharat BJP ka naara nahi hai, jan jan ka sankalp hai. Be it dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption, communalism, divisions in society or poverty, getting freedom from all this is what I mean by a Congress Mukt Bharat.

Narendra Modi

#12. A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.

Lena Horne

#13. We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

Narendra Modi

#14. Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257)

Eddie Huang

#15. Harry Mount hints at the possibility that I was admitted to Magdalen in 1960 because my father had been senior scholar there a quarter of a century earlier. I was, in fact, the winner of an open scholarship; Mr Mount should learn the difference between genetics and nepotism.

Michael Beloff

#16. Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

Toni Morrison

#17. Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid.

Nicolas Cage

#18. And don't knock nepotism, Cheeseman; my well-connected uncles all agree, nepotism made this country what it is today.

David Mitchell

#19. This town was built on nepotism.

Damon Wayans

#20. I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Sloane Crosley

#21. I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

Garry Marshall

#22. Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.

Daniel Alarcon

#23. Jared was her son and the "co-general manager" of the Yankees - co meaning shares the title with someone who knows what he's doing because he got the job through nepotism.

Harlan Coben

#24. Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

Adam Bellow

#25. nepotism, patronage, political corruption, and ethnic divisions.

Wayne Worcester

#26. Nepotism is despised in England, which is a very good thing. I think something to do with the class system. People really look down on nepotism. So yeah, it never really works in your favor - even in this industry.

Max Irons

#27. I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Anthony Hopkins

#28. Youth and nepotism, the twin horsemen of Hollywood!

Susan Dunlap

#29. During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.

Jeff Bridges

#30. Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

George Papandreou

#31. I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#32. NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Ambrose Bierce

#33. North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

Frank Schaeffer

#34. What you sow, you reap. It's a law of nature. Network Marketing is perfectly aligned with that. You get truly, EXACTLY what you're worth! No nepotism, no favoritism. That's rare today.

Bob Proctor

#35. When pressed to tell people how I got myself into my current nepotism-gone-bad situation, I like to describe it as a mini-breakdown. The prefix makes all the difference. It makes it sound more like a vacation than a condition best treated with medication and art therapy.

Jill A. Davis

#36. With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself.

Natalia Marx

#37. No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.

Stewart Stafford