High Quotes
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I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.
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I've always been a little high maintenance. I'm, like, upper-middle-class maintenance.
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The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.
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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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For wok cooking, use oils with a high smoke point and low polyunsaturated-fat content: grapeseed oil, peanut oil, etc. Sesame oil and olive oil will burn and taste bitter. Oils with high polyunsaturated-fat contents like soybean oil will also make your food texturally unpleasant.
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All economic activity is by definition 'high risk.' And defending yesterday-that is, not innovating-is far more risky than making tomorrow.
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Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture. Do you have high-interest rate debt? Paying it off faster will save you a bundle.
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Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
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I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
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I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.
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I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that women have very small pelvic areas often, so if they have larger babies, it's very hard to deliver.
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Usually, what I do if I want to dress things up is I don't go for high heels, but I go for mid-heels instead.
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I coached at Northwestern for eight years, where the admission requirements were high.
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When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
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All are before me! I behold The House, the Brotherhood austere! - And what am I, that I am here? For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?
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We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
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My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.
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High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.
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Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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During the four years I had spent in New York, I had achieved top status as a model and had worked for the best photographers and designers in the world. I had grown used to hearing that I was exotic and high-fashion.
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When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that's too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.
