Double Standard Quotes - Page 6

• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

  Mila Kunis

  Thinking, Males, Female

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivasection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees! The only reason we can be comfortable with such a double standard is that the intermediates between humans and chimps are all dead.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Attitude, Intelligent

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Lying, Play, Crosses

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• Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Pride, Feelings

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  Verne Troyer

  Dolls, Double Me

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

  Jesse Ventura

  Fabric, Bras, If I Could

  Playboy Interview, November 1999.

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• Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

  Denzel Washington

  Real, Opposites, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Mind, Weakness

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.268

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• Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Morality, Blame

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

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• The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Names, Vices, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2000). “Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.952, Modern Library

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• Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Truth, Science

  "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.

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• When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

  Olivia Wilde

  Girl, Sexy, Kissing

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• If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

  Francis Crick

  Form, Combination, Ifs

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• I think there's no question that everything possible is being done to stop Donald Trump and you're seeing a case study in how hard it is to be outsider and the double standard of the national media, particularly if you're a conservative outsider.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Media, Done

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the word "apartheid." It's provocative, but it was like a nuclear bomb in Israel. And yet that word is used all the time in the Israeli press. There's a double standard there. He probably picked it up in Israel, as it's commonly discussed. I'd be a little surprised if he understood how it was going to be used against him. He doesn't have a highly developed emotional detector. As a politician, that was a weakness.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Emotional, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Fox doesn't treat me any differently, and that's one thing I'm very lucky with - my network treats me like a woman, but they never make me feel like I don't fit in or anything like that, which is great. But within the industry, yeah. It's a double standard, but it's something that you have to deal with or try to make better; turn into a positive.

  Erin Andrews

  Trying, Lucky, Fit

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The teabagger thing and the right-wing thing - they pick easy targets, and a female in the entertainment industry is low-hanging fruit. It's very easy to mock and marginalize people in general who are in the entertainment industry, for some reason. But then definitely there's the double standard and the misogyny that goes through it as well.

  Janeane Garofalo

  People, Female, Reason

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• The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?

  Amanda Marcotte

  Thinking, Expression, Feminist

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• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Boards, Bulls

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• This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

  Doc Hastings

  Taxation, Unfair, Form

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• Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Mistake, World, Demand

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• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Strength, Hate, Women

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