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I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling. -- Maud Welzen
Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate. -- Urban Meyer
Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one -- Aaron Sorkin
Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things. -- Jeff Sharlet
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. -- Tammy Bruce
A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio. -- David Icke
Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican. -- Jeff Sharlet
Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right. -- Lynn Jennings
The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite. -- Kiera Cass
Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity. -- Jackson Katz
Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level. -- Shannon Miller
The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss. -- Tammy Bruce
"Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.' -- Sandra Boynton
Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling. -- John Cage
When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over. -- Krysten Ritter
Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. -- Andre Rieu
Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to. -- Gilda Radner
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. -- Ludwig von Mises
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. -- Hugo Chavez
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be. -- Lauren Hutton
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. -- George Will
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. -- Alvin Ailey
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. -- Hannah Arendt
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? -- Camille Paglia
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship. -- Yulia Tymoshenko
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. -- Robert Anton Wilson
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. -- Tom Clancy
Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. -- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation. -- Rick Perlstein
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. -- Timothy Noah
For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game. -- J. C. Watts
I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking. -- Camille Paglia
We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations. -- Mae Jemison
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society. -- Os Guinness
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. -- Peter Singer
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. -- Kiran Desai
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it. -- Erik Erikson
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions. -- Glenn Greenwald
Don Chew is the owner of the Orange County Badminton Club, the location where I train. He played badminton when he was young and always had the passion for it. He never made it at the international level, but he wanted to give back to the sport. The majority of the elite players train at Orange County Badminton Club. -- Howard Bach
I'm an elite, recreational juggler. -- Gracie Gold
It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups. -- Robert Lacey
The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped. -- David Frum
You stay elite by constantly moving forward. -- Bob Myers
An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps -- Kathy Reichs
Everyone has the impulse to be elite. -- Alfre Woodard
Language does not make one an elite. -- Irrfan Khan
Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something. -- Henry Giroux
Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street. -- Al Dubin
Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite. -- John Berger
Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite. -- Janine di Giovanni
I care about education for everyone, not just the elite. -- Sebastian Thrun
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite. -- Dan Quayle
The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance. -- Tim LaHaye
Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. -- Noam Chomsky
Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody." -- Andre Rieu
I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English. -- Mamata Banerjee
Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody. -- Luciano Pavarotti
Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient. -- Paul Virilio
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite. -- Adam McKay
There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration. -- Mark Krikorian
Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few. -- Lucinda Williams
No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat. -- Thomas Friedman
It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall. -- Questlove
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. -- Bill Keller
It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention. -- Steve Vai
the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune. -- Drew Karpyshyn
Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth. -- Ravi Zacharias
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. -- Julia Leigh
It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy. -- Jill Stein
I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. -- Ed Gillespie
If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe -- Peter L. Berger
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard. -- David Letterman
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering. -- Charles de Gaulle
A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves. -- Jared Diamond
According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite. -- Adolf Galland
The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite. -- Murray Rothbard
Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses. -- Henry Giroux
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite. -- Heather Brooke
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence. -- James Bryant Conant
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage. -- Petra Kelly
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English. -- Martin Jacques
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. -- Orson Scott Card
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite? -- Julia Quinn
Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril. -- Janet Morris
It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler. -- Joe Rogan
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. -- Derek Bok
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil. -- Hugo Chavez
It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down. -- Catharine MacKinnon
Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.' -- Brad Alan Lewis
I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite. -- Nicola Formichetti
I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi. -- Shepard Smith
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions." -- Alana Stewart
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate. -- Amish Tripathi
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. -- Thomas Sowell
[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God. -- Pat Buchanan
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. -- Noam Chomsky
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. -- Emily Oster
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance." -- James Bryant Conant
There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. -- James Bryant Conant
An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth. -- John Pilger
When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end. -- Steve Young
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. -- Alana Stewart
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. -- Vernor Vinge
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite. -- Ron Silver
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite -- Ron Silver
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite. -- Jane Leavy
You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life. -- Gary W. Keller
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity. -- Sargent Shriver
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. -- Robert Reich
The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment. -- Albert Einstein
... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite. -- Margaret Halsey
I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school. -- Shepard Smith
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick. -- Noreena Hertz
We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy. -- Ron Paul

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