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  • There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.' -- Tamara Ecclestone
  • Spoilt is a euphemism for loved. -- James Nesbitt
  • Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. -- Paul Gauguin
  • I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything. -- Eminem
  • I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent? -- William Butler Yeats
  • Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it! -- Clemence Poesy
  • My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life. -- Tamara Ecclestone
  • My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt. -- Shane Filan
  • 'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.' -- James Nesbitt
  • Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country. -- Mary Todd Lincoln
  • I've always hated it when people overspend, are spoilt or throw their money away. -- Brian Blessed
  • We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last. -- Ray Hudson
  • I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children. -- Amy Childs
  • Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour. -- Cardinal Richelieu
  • The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things. -- Paris Hilton
  • I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13. -- Eddie Marsan
  • I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private-school kids. I want them to behave well by example. I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow. -- Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid. -- Louis Pasteur
  • This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever....I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
  • Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • I was probably spoilt, if I'm being totally honest. -- Mark Shand
  • I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary. -- Peaches Geldof
  • You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly. -- Iain Glen
  • I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to. -- Asafa Powell
  • But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television. -- Matt LeBlanc
  • As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury. -- Asif Ali Zardari
  • It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy. -- Mike Figgis
  • Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it. -- Sarah Churchwell
  • I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example. -- Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice. -- Sara Sheridan
  • I grew up in England, went to a nice public school, then didn't want to go to university, so I thought I would wander around. I did a season skiing, a bit of sailing, typical spoilt brat stuff. I ended up in the Caribbean. I was having a blast. -- Marc Koska
  • There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I'd done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good. -- Roger Bannister
  • Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life. -- Neil Jackson
  • If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl. -- Romola Garai
  • My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them. -- Sonakshi Sinha
  • My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things. -- Tommy Lee
  • I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life. -- Frank Miller
  • My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work. -- Felicity Kendal
  • I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here. -- Tommy Flanagan
  • I was middle class and fucked up and spoilt. -- Sara Sheridan
  • The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel. -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
  • He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt) -- Clara Schumann
  • Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. -- Alain de Botton
  • I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said. -- Holly Black
  • The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it. -- Margaret Visser
  • I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play. -- Alden Ehrenreich
  • Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else. -- Frederick H. Evans
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