Donovan Mitchell Quotes

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

Because of how I grew up and on 'Made In Chelsea,' I never had any challenge.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents don't really care about those kinds of things.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.