A Quote by Bernadine Dohrn

I don't come from a privileged background.

Bernadine Dohrn

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Bernadine Dohrn
American - Educator
Born: January 12, 1942

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

Denise Mina

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

Idris Elba

Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.

Amish Tripathi

I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a price I could afford. My love of vintage is rooted in that. Drugstores were the mecca for the latest makeup trends and products.

Eva Mendes

I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.

Daniel Radcliffe

I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where I mixed with less well off people. Maybe it comes from there but I've always felt that it's our duty to make society fairer.

Jonathan Trigell

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

Edward Norton

I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.

Greg Rucka

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

David Lagercrantz

In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

Amish Tripathi

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

Tamara Ecclestone

I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

Jeremy Strong

Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.

Peter Sunde

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

Jarvis Cocker

I didn't come from a combat sports background where I had a real definitive background in anything to fall back onto.

Liz Carmouche

I came from a privileged background, which I am entirely grateful for, but it played a part in my feeling that I couldn't complain about my own emotions.

Adwoa Aboah

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