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I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.

~Boyd Holbrook

Topics: Bus Documentary Elite His Seen Squad

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Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.

~Brian O'Driscoll

Topics: Difficult Elite Enough Great Group Lions Performance Place Players Produce Series Until Win You Yourself

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My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: America Between Boxers Castro Choose Cuba Cuban Cultural Decision Documentary Economic Elite Forced Lens Paradoxes Relations Remaining Revolution Shaped Since Split Them Through

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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Almost Anyone Anywhere Anywhere Else Ashore Athlete Athletes Boxers Cash Country Cuban Despite Effectively Elite Else General Had Impoverished Incentive Leave Lottery Majority See Skills Small Stayed Tickets Vast Vast Majority Want Wash Were Where Why Winning World Would

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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

Topics: Academics American Become Claim Democratic Democratic Party Democrats Detached Elite Increasingly Journalists Lawyers Ordinary Party Poor Professional Speak Though Why

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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: About Academically America Anti-American Being Cast Elite Emerging Future Insofar Ivy Ivy League League Most Other Our Promising Schools Students Thinking Through Worried

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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Changing Complacent Conditions Elite Greedy Hopelessly Late Like Past Powerless Respond Rome Ruled

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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

~Catharine Mackinnon

Topics: Academia Academic Elite Feminist Men Postmodernism Rooted Theory Where Women Women And Men World

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It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

~Catharine Mackinnon

Topics: Benefit Down Elite Few Forces Greatly Keep Mainly Standing Who Women

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This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Again Been Bill Bill Of Rights Citizenry Consensus Country Elite Everyone Folks Happens Knows New Nobody Normal Out Overwhelming Pitch Rights Says September Since Something Start Up Will Window

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