Graeme Murphy Quotes

You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

If you were a Rockefeller, wouldn’t you be?.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

It is both an honour and a privilege to be asked to lead NBC News. The power of the brand, the scale of the legacy, the depth of the talent all make this organisation truly great.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

Nobody is offered a World Cup.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

He's sitting in the catbird seat.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

...a blue blood, a snob

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.

I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.

When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.

I don't go hunting with kings and princes.