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• The Bassbone is just what I have been looking for... I can maintain the integrity of two instruments on stage or in the studio with control over the balance and keep my high standards for my low notes!

  Nathan East

  Integrity, Two, Balance

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• We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

  Marina Keegan

  Self, Perfect, Perspective

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.

  George Blake

  Country, Kgb, World

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• Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are going to always be moving toward something. So why not be moving toward something that is pleasing? You can't cease to vibrate, and Law of Attraction will not stop responding to the vibration that you are offering. So, expansion is inevitable. You provide it, whether you know you do, or not. The only question is, what is the standard of joy that you are demanding for yourself? From your Nonphysical perspective, it's a high, high standard.

  Esther Hicks

  Moving, Law Of Attraction, Offering

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• Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Thinking, Discipline

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• We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

  Moby

  Fall, People, Judging

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, School, Lines

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• My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

  Billy Corgan

  Father, Player, Guitar

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• That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect a dissatisfaction with what—or who—is available. Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards. In Chamfort's words, 'It is sometimes said of a man who lives alone that he does not like society. This is like saying of a man that he does not like going for walks because he is not fond of walking at night in the forêt de Bondy.

  Alain de Botton

  Night, Men, People

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• Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Boys, Ordinary

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.90, Penguin

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• Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Comforting, Might

  "Superpower, Real and Unreal" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

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• Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

  Thomas Sowell

  Success, Failure, Science

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

  Olivia Wilde

  Food Love, Parts Of Life, I Can

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• The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Integrity, Motherhood, Men

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• I'm really shallow when I come to guys. I only date really good-looking, well-endowed guys, with great bodies. My friends are always going on at me. I'm like. 'I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!'

  Josie Maran

  Guy, Body, Helping

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

  Barry Zito

  Running, Giving Up, Cocky

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• High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.

  Joseph Epstein

  Art, Quality, Creation

  Joseph Epstein (2003). “Snobbery: The American Version”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

  Eric Liddell

  Christian, Jesus, Ambition

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• A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Self, Survival

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

  Stephanie Rice

  Emotional, Race, Done

  "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

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• We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Running, Careers, Organization

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• My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate human beings with high standards-whom I completely and unequivocally adore-don't always agree with-but always admire and respect. They all have wit and a sense of humor and, thank God, I have hung on to mine.

  Lauren Bacall

  Children, Thank God, Essentials

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• It is important to work with purveyors who share our high standards and are discriminating about the products they supply. This has been the foundation of a long and loyal relationship with Gourmet Attitude, a supplier that has helped us offer our guests some of the highest quality imported truffles available in the U.S.

  David Breeden

  Attitude, Long, Important

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• I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

  Josie Maran

  Helping, Standards, I Can

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

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• To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.

  Christian D. Larson

  Character, Men, Hands

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