Richard Matheson Quotes
Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
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I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.
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The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.
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I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.
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The standards for ballot access in New York State apply equally to all candidates seeking a given political nomination, ... In other words, all similarly situated are treated equally.
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Debbie was accused of being too overtly sexual and now the standards are different. Times have changed.
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I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.
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The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
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Keep your heel, head and standards high.
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If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
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Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.
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Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!
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I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me.
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One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.
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Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.
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Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.
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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
