Status Quotes

• Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.

  

  Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Writers
  • Sacred
  • Russian

• How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

  

  Andrew Manis
  • Responsibility
  • Status
  • Blacks

• Slaves, whose legal status was comparable to that of livestock, were expected to provide a farm owner with marketable children.

  

  Ned Sublette
  • Slaves
  • Status
  • Owner

• Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.

  

  Alissa Quart
  • People
  • Compare
  • Status

• He wanted her. Her. Nothing could take that away from her. Ever. He wanted her, not the status he thought her purloined name could bring him.

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Thought
  • Name
  • Her

• President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

  

  Mia Love
  • President
  • Social
  • Policy

• Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

  

  Nomi Prins
  • Life
  • Shot
  • Status

• The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.

  

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • Govern
  • Status
  • Elected

• My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Family
  • Another
  • Refugee

• It was just Rocket being Rocket. He was just adding to his legendary status.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • His
  • Rocket
  • Adding

• I think a comedian has to be low status on some level; that gives you the right to do all sorts of jokes about all sorts of different kinds of people.

  

  Stewart Lee
  • Jokes
  • Comedian
  • Status

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