Standards Quotes
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
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I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.
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By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.
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In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.
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Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.
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I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.
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There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.
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I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
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God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.
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Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
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Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.
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Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
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What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's labeled great music.
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Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.
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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
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By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?
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When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
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Guy's a psychopath,even by vampire standards. And that's saying something.
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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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It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.
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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
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We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
