The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
Ben Hecht

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
Taylor Hackford

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
Amanda Peet

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
Hugo Chavez

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Desmond Tutu

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
Lesley Garrett

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.
Dick Fosbury

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.
Luciano Pavarotti