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“I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.”

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Author:Kendrick Lamar

“As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.”

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Author:Fred Ward

“If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can't in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy.”

“Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.”

Knows Certain Standards Silly Brilliance Exalted

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.”

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Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.”

Ifs Might Certain Language Forever Standards Tongue Fixed Refined

Author:Jonathan Swift

“We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.”

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.”

Made Certain Song House Strong Rooms Beauty Grace Tree Please Taste Standards Bird Rivers Weak Relation Dresses Prose Verses Discourse Good Taste

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“Whether at home or at work, ISTJs are nothing if not reliable, particularly when it comes to inspecting the people and things in their jurisdiction-quietly seeing to it that uniform quality of product is maintained, and that those around them uphold certain standards of attitude and conduct.”

People Ifs Home Certain Attitude Quality Seeing Products Standards Uniforms Jurisdiction

Book:Please Understand Me 2

Source: Please Understand Me 2

“There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do you affix a value to something that only has value because a certain number of people agree to believe in that value?”

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Author:John Currin

“The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.”

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Author:Mary Gaitskill

“Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.”

Certain Universe Term Unique Standards Relation Productions Ideology Blah Unique Experiences

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.”

Thinking Children Mother Certain Social Amount Behavior Standards Pressure Regard Our Children Conform Unnatural Social Pressure

Author:Jillian Medoff

“But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.”

“It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.”

“You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need.”

People Needs Certain Fighting Standards Polite Respecting Others Standards Of Living

Author:Cristian Mungiu

“The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in the world, and how they see it.... To say someone has learnt history is to say something very wide ranging about the way in which he or she is likely to make sense of the world. History offers a way of seeing almost any substantive issue in human affairs, subject to certain procedures and standards, whatever feelings one may have.”

World Way Humans May Reason Feelings Certain Issues Seeing Teaching Subjects Offers Standards Affair Wide Make Sense World History Procedures Pupils Teaching History

Author:Peter Lee

“The question is: Would there be a market in Germany for certain types of employment if one were to allow the employed person to earn less than is necessary to maintain his standard of living?”

Ifs Persons Certain Type Standards Employment Germany Employed Standards Of Living

Author:Angela Merkel

“Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... Time will make this plain.”

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Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“People are conditioned to believe that error is inevitable.... However, we do not accept the same standard when it comes to our personal life. If we did, we would resign ourselves to being shortchanged now and then when we cash our paychecks. We would expect hospital nurses to drop a certain percentage of all newborn babies. We would expect to go home to the wrong house periodically. As individuals we do not tolerate these things. Thus we have a double standard, one for ourselves, one for the company.”

“I have a big problem with scouts. There's a standard for a receiver-you have to have a certain size, run a certain speed, and what not. I disagree with that. You can have a lot of heart, a lot of passion for the game, and be a great receiver. Everyone's looking for that prototype guy, and it shouldn't be that way.”

Way Heart Problem Bigs Running Guy Certain Passion Games Standards Size Speed Disagree Big Problems Receiver Prototype

Author:Hines Ward

“Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.”

Ifs Men Mean Different Certain Mistake Standards All Things Ultimate Relative Ultimate Truth Standards Set

Author:Zhuangzi

“I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I was equal to it. I thoroughly enjoyed directing, I liked it a lot. It's very satisfactory to see that you can do it. The art takes care of itself.”

Art Care Certain Found Can Do Equal Standards Take Care Enjoyed You Can Do It Procedures

Author:William Monahan

“In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.”

Ifs Wells Kind Happens Beautiful Certain Novel Broken Couple Standards Communicate Efficient Eloquent Expressive Breaking Rules Broken English

Author:Elliott Colla

“I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.”

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Author:Charlie Benante

“A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests.”

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Author:Orrin Hatch

“Films allow you more preparation time, keeping the higher budgets in mind. Television makes you work really fast, but maintain certain standards. Then it's up to me to seek out the best of both worlds.”

World Mind Film Certain Television Higher Standards Preparation Budgets Best Of Both Worlds Time Keeping

Author:Indraneel Bhattacharya

“I want the people making this music to stick to what they know in terms of ensuring that they remain true to that and the authenticity. Don't be afraid to be original and explore of course, but don't necessarily abandon certain standards in order to try to appeal to other people.”

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Author:Jlin

“I have certain standards for myself so if something drops beneath that standard or if the opportunity doesn't fit who I am authentically at my core - I don't invest time where my brand isn't respected or where what I have to offer isn't appreciated.”

Ifs Certain Opportunity Fit Offers Standards Core Who I Am Brands Appreciated

Author:T. D. Jakes

“I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them.”

Looks Hard Young Certain Fronts Students Authority Standards Envy Young Ones Young Students

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.”

Ifs Certain Term Rocks Genius Standards Ice Application Classical Music Treading

Author:Jimmy Page

“I still think there is a huge emphasis on how women look, whether it's fitting a certain mold to play a certain type of character, or the idea that we might have insecurities based on the standards we see in the media.”

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Author:Lily Collins

“I think it's reasonable that the government, when it has a warrant from a court, when it's exposed to scrutiny by a legal process that would be upheld, not just nationally, but internationally as a reliable and robust standard rights protection, they can enjoy certain powers. This is no different from having the police able to get a warrant to go and search your house, to kick at your door because they think you're an arms dealer or something like that. There needs to be a process involved, it needs to be public, and it needs to be challengeable in court at all times.”

“Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.”

Knows Certain President Style Standards Recruit

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Unfortunately, in Russia this "Asian mentality,"still comes to the fore. But at the same time, it is obvious that there is a certain orientation toward the West. In the end, this is a fragile balancing act between the Asian manner of governance and high living standards that are guaranteed through Western technology.”

Stills Ends Certain Technology Standards West Western Obvious Russia Fragile Mentality Governance Asian Orientation Balancing Act

Author:Garry Kasparov

“To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”

Certain Passion Easy Class Middle Amount Goodness Lows Standards Terror Be Good Middle Class Vulgar Imaginative Respectability

Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.”

“I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.”

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Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.”

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Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard”

Mean Doe Self Feelings Certain Capable Standards Shame Oneself Esteem Disgusting

Book:The End of History and the Last Man

Source: The End of History and the Last Man

“In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.”

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Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class

Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class

“If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.”

Ifs World Humans Helping Might Would Be Certain Sports Standards Charity Human Life Making A Difference Mortality Judged Terrific Usefulness

Author:Gene Tunney

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