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Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. -- Tom Clancy
I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. -- Elia Kazan
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. -- Henry Rollins
Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing. -- Mark Morris
I think we could all be a bit more elitist. -- Rufus Wainwright
I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people. -- Neil Cavuto
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. -- David Ives
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. -- Winston Churchill
In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere. -- Will Cotton
Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen. -- Keith Olbermann
Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone. -- Richard Attenborough
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. -- Graham Joyce
Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country. -- George Carlin
I don't want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy. -- Denis Leary
I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party. -- Ed Gillespie
I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite. -- Nicola Formichetti
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive? -- Richard Dawkins
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist. -- Vera Wang
I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart. -- Rick Perry
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art. -- Serj Tankian
If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist. -- Camille Paglia
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent. -- Twyla Tharp
Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else. -- Sarah Thornton
Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant. -- Judith Martin
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist. -- Alice Waters
The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't. -- Jack White
I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more. -- Douglas Coupland
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. -- William E. Simon
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves. -- Michel Onfray
The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing. -- Beck
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
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group. -- Lesley Garrett
My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. -- Michael Ian Black
I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard. -- Tommy Lee Jones
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements. -- Yoko Ono
September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves. -- Rory Stewart
I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all. -- Robert Rauschenberg
I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to. -- Lulu
Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever. -- Chris Klein
To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist. -- Florence King
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid. -- Camille Paglia
To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard. -- John Ridley
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. -- Wangari Maathai
I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything. -- Michel Hazanavicius
There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land. -- Alice Waters
Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas. -- Peter Kreeft
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate -- Gary L. Francione
Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am. -- Kim Deal
Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common... -- Charley Reese
The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education. -- Joshua Jackson
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. -- Timothy Leary
Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist. -- Frank Gehry
I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me. -- Bunker Roy
The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced. -- Ruth Simmons
It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different. -- Frank Gehry
There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist. -- Stephen Malkmus
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. -- Camille Paglia
When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist. -- Jay-Z
I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that. -- Ridley Scott
I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs. -- Steve Coogan
You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist. -- Billie Jean King
I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible. -- Katherine Jenkins
In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions. -- Harlan Ellison
Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise. -- Lester Bangs
Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life. -- Matthew Fox
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world. -- Eric Pianka
You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame. -- Andre Leon Talley
Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist. -- William Hague
I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting. -- Newt Gingrich
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd. -- Alberto Manguel
I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out. -- Bunker Roy
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist -- Alice Waters
If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking. -- Cheryl Strayed
I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture. -- Richard Benjamin
Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite. -- Michael Haneke
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not. -- Kathryn Bigelow

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