I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.
I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.
We don't get what we deserve. We get what we BELIEVE we deserve.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
When they [Trump voters] get a [government] benefit. they assume that God gave it to them, But most people don’t want to pay for someone else’s undeserved benefits.
If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it.
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
When they [most people] get a [government] benefit, they assume that God gave them it to them, But most people don’t want to pay for someone else’s undeserved benefits.
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
I'm having the life that I kind of hoped I might have one time, you know? I do feel like I have a place here. And, at least, I deserve it, as much as anybody else, hopefully.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them.
It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.
Everybody deserves a right to be happy.
I was incredibly fatalistic. I just thought, 'If it works, it works.' But I've always been like that. I've never been easily impressed, and I've never thought I didn't deserve something. If I got it, then I deserved it.
I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.
The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
