Harmony Korine

I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

American Director

Rory Kinnear

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

English Actor

Gus Van Sant

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Paul Wellstone

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

American Politician

Jim Crace

For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.

English Writer

Joan Van Ark

When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

American Actress

Kathryn Bigelow

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

George Packer

A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.

American Novelist

Simon Schama

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

British Historian

Phyllida Lloyd

In London, it's quite a rarefied activity to be on an analyst's couch.

English Director

Used to imply a sense of privilege or belonging to a select group with restricted access.

Social Exclusivity

Describes topics or discussions that are complex and understood by a specialized audience.

Intellectual Depth

Indicates something is not common or popular in everyday usage.

Not Mainstream

Refers to air with less oxygen, usually found at high elevations on mountains.

High Altitude

Highlights the need for the body to adjust to oxygen-poor environments.

Physical Adaptation

Suggests an elevated level of sophistication or cultural refinement that is admired.

Cultural Sophistication

Used to describe a style or aesthetic that appears refined and tasteful.

Stylish Elegance

 So why do we have this disparity between these incredibly sophisticated markets at the top of the economy that are increasingly sucking more and more activity and resource out of the main economy into this rarefied level of trading, and what the rest of us have?

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 Tralfamadorians, the aliens who crop up in many of his books, see all moments at once. They “can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti.” But although they can see all of time,

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 to you about a new adventure an adventure with cheetahs now of course cheetahs are members of this rarefied family of big cats and there's only seven of them but even that in that rarefied family cheetahs are different yeah they're not like lions the big

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