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• There’s no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

  Edith Head

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  Tags in Standard, Size

• Personally, I can’t stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there’s 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don’t know why those directors aren’t asked why they’re such specialists for violence.

  Michael Haneke

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  Tags in Directors, Standard

• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art’s sake.

  Hans Haacke

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  Tags in Standard, Promoted

• Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That’s a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you’ll rarely hear a politician make it.

  James Surowiecki

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  Tags in Standard

• Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What’s now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don’t.

  James Surowiecki

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  Tags in Standard, Company

• As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Standard, Poverty, Advance

• Society can take two roads – the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

  Mark Skousen

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  Tags in Prosperity, Standard

• I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn’t sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song, Standard

• I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

  Rupert Sheldrake

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  Tags in Atheist, Standard

• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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  Tags in Standard, Playing, Behavior

• Retiring for good wasn’t difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I’d set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  Ian Botham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Myself, Difficult, Standard

• The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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  Tags in Scientific, Standard, Simple

• The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

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  Tags in Standard

• Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

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• We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver’s license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.

  Bill Shuster

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  Tags in Need, Standard

• The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

  Gijs de Vries

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  Tags in Global, Regional, Standard

• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  Florence Kelley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Industry, Standard, Women

• When I see my staff take a step back because I’ve lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn’t meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

  Curtis Stone

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  Tags in Cool, Standard, Explain

• We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

  Chuck Mangione

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  Tags in Contemporary, Standard, Rock

• The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

  Garry Shandling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hosting, Standard, Show