Quotes About Status

I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the 'Dallas' TV show, and I grew up around people who were very similar to J. R.: they had come into a ton of money. And they loved to flaunt it and loved to drive fancy cars and wear the big cowboy hats and nice suits.

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.

Having a good team of oxen was the nineteenth-century version of macho, like having a fancy car today," said Gene, the oxen trainer. "A farmer was proud of owning a set matched in color and weight." Unlike a car, you can't take a team of oxen for a quick spin around the block; oxen don't do anything quickly.

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It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

Oh, silly people at court care, because they're the sort of fools who believe that one's ancestors are much more important than one's personal merit. Prove you're the great-great-great granddaughter of some medieval king's illegitimate whelp, as she did, and they'll fawn all over you and give you money, entry into the right houses, introductions to the right people…

But at this point, with only minor victories for the rebels, a cease-fire could only result in a return to our previous status. Or worse.

Adquiere estatus de estrella con su juego nocturno de «El gato loco».

I am a duke, you know. If I can't perform a miracle here and there I might as well be a butler in expesive clothes." He brushed at the sleeve of his well-tailored brown coat. "And butlers don't get to dance with attractive women.

This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted and no one is going to acknowldege it, that´s certain. I´m expected to be Brave and Rise Above. I dress for the role; I must look far better now that I did when I was married. I must look pulled together into a nice tight Hermès knot of self-containment. I don´t make the rules; I just do my best to follow them.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

I don't want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.

In Moscow, if you have money, you're king. If you don't - sorry, man, get lost. I mean, it's like this everywhere. But in Moscow, it's much more hard-core.

It's the Met Gala - everyone is huge. It feels very hierarchical, and I get really nervous in hierarchical spaces because I feel like everyone deserves to feel just as special as everyone else, but that's just not the way it is in this business.

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

Fortunate, indeed, is the person who has discovered how to give sex emotion an outlet through some form of creative effort, for he has, by that discovery, lifted himself to the status of a genius.

They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status—but rarely for your wisdom.

Those who use foul language on social networks (such as Twitter) are sending an expensive signal that they are free—and, ironically, competent. You don't signal competence if you don't take risks for it—there are few such low-risk strategies. So cursing today is a status symbol, just as oligarchs in Moscow wear blue jeans at special events to signal their power.