status quotes

• If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity. (George Sand) [love/status/more/men]
• Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. (David Mamet) [status//death/question]
• If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity. (George Sand) [love/status/more/men]
• Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it. (Bela Lugosi) [movie/status]
• I enjoy this status so much, feeling that I'm close to the heart of the tribe as an actor, a storyteller, a troubadour, but socially quite distant because I don't fit into any particular comfortable slot. (Ben Kingsley) [status/feeling]
• I felt really strongly, as a New Yorker, that the city bonded in a way that transcended race and sex and economic status. We had an opportunity that the president just completely blew. Now we've gone so far in the other direction in terms of war and danger. (Kevin Bacon) [strongly/sex/status/president]
• Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds? (Camryn Manheim) [celebrity/status]
• “I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.” (William Baldwin) [love/celebrity/status]
• Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me. (Kyra Sedgwick) [fear/status]
• “Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]” (Matt Dillon) [strange/status]
• It confers no privileged status on any particular religious sect, and singles out no bona fide faith for disadvantageous treatment (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [status/faith/treatment]
• [Dialogue is] the only way of reducing and eventually ending the violence in Kosovo, … not by independence for Kosovo, but for enhanced autonomy and status for Kosovo. (Robin Cook) [status]
• Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest. (Ted Williams) [money/status/interest]
• “When the federal government would actually save millions of dollars by forgoing the status quo and actually sending evacuees on a luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting oversight. A short-term temporary solution has turned into a long-term, grossly overpriced sweetheart deal for a cruise line,” (Barack Obama) [government/status/time]

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