Brian Grazer

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

American Producer

Diane Warren

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

American Musician

Tom Tancredo

It is neither racist nor elitist to say publicly what every rational person believes privately - that if you don't know anything about a subject, you ought not to raise your hand or cast a ballot on the matter.

American Politician

Andre Leon Talley

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.

American Editor

Camille Paglia

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.

American Author

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

South African Activist

Richard Dawkins

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

English Scientist

Jamie Hewlett

The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.

English Artist

Sasha Velour

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.

American Entertainer

Zal Batmanglij

American Director

Describes a negative opinion about someone's superiority due to their status or abilities.

Negative Connotation

Often used to criticize class divides or unequal opportunities in society.

Cultural Critique

In some contexts, may imply admiration for high standards or selectiveness.

Not Always Negative

Highlights one's belief in their own superiority, which can alienate others.

Perceived Superiority

Used to describe actions or policies that favor a select group, often unfairly.

Social Exclusion

The offensiveness can vary widely depending on the social context and audience.

Context Sensitive

 And then there are the others, who say that these statistics are elitist, maybe even rigged; they don't make sense and they don't really reflect what's happening in people's everyday lives. It kind of feels like that second group is winning the argument right now. We're living in a world of alternative facts, where people don't find statistics this kind of common ground, this starting point for debate.

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 and within art history, they also elevated him to the mythified status of the genius artist as hero. So rather than evening the playing field for all creative minds, his work unfortunately reinforced a long-standing elitist aspect of art.

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 what it's like living without them and I want to see if I can cope without them all I guess I want to get harder you know I want to get tougher and I want to see if I can do it it's a challenge it's a almost an elitist thing if I can do

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 And it's cathartic to laugh at them. But I can tell you that it really does not feel good to receive them. At first, I would screenshot their comments and make fun of their typos, but this soon felt elitist and ultimately unhelpful.

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 Between the official story -- the food pyramid -- and the hip locavore vision, you have two versions of how to improve our eating. They both get it wrong, though. The first at least is populist, and the second is elitist.

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 they were considered elitist and not really connected directly to our environment probably too expensive to produce and not enough connected to daily use so there we were sort of experiencing the limits of our own

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 treated environmental justice as though it was elitist. And at the same time, the leaders who did focus on climate change were usually white and rarely bothered to enlist the support of Black voices in their work.

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 as saturated with color. Some even have gender or personality. For Gail, 3 is athletic and sporty, 9 is a vain, elitist girl. By contrast, the sound units of language, or phonemes, trigger synestetic tastes.

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 from the people most directly impacted by its work. I believe this is because architecture remains a white, male, elitist profession -- seemingly unconcerned with some of the greatest needs in the world

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 these elitists, if you will. Educated, well-dressed, some would dare say questionably dressed. Nonetheless, our forefathers, right?

Elitist