Standards Quotes - Page 20

• It [World of Warcraft] is a touchstone. It has established standards, it's established how you play an MMO. Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that's pretty dumb.

  Greg Zeschuk

  Book, Play, Dumb

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• I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

  Amber Heard

  Beautiful, Powerful, Women

  "Amber Heard THE RUM DIARY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games. The expression of the Monsters I have made has a much deeper meaning. The craziness of humanity, the fear we all have, the feeling of going beyond common sense, the absence of ordinariness, expressed by something extremely big, by something that could be ugly or beautiful. In other words, I wanted to question the established standards of beauty.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Beautiful, Expression, Games

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• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Opposites, Class, Would Be

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• I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

  Brad Pitt

  Crazy, Party, Guy

  "A Conversation Runs Through It". Interview with Bruce Handy, content.time.com. October 13, 1997.

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• It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Military, Reading

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.103, Routledge

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• Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

  Robert Duvall

  People, Acting, Bigger Than Life

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• I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.

  Mae West

  Believe, Men, I Believe

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

  Ed Westwick

  Inspirational, Relationship, Expectations

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• No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

  Barbara Goldsmith

  Reality, Judging

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• PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Character, Differences

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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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, High Standards

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• Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

  Daniel Goleman

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Hypocrisy, Moral

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• You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.

  Richard Carrier

  Religious, Religion, Tests

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• Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

  William J. Brennan

  Taken, Average, Law

  Roth v. United States (1957)

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• The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Fall, Law, Justice

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• A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

  Mark R. Woodward

  Faith, Definitions, Alright

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• Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

  John Quincy Adams

  Prayer, Heart, America

  Friedrich von Gentz, John Quincy Adams, Richard Loss (1800). “The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution: a facsimile reproduction”, Academic Resources Corp

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• The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.

  Shamcey Supsup

  Standards Of Beauty, Definite

  FaceBook post by Shamcey Supsup from Apr 10, 2011

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• In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we give heed to, uphold, and affirm prophetic word, we witness that we have the faith to humbly submit to the will, the wisdom, and the timing of the Lord. We heed prophetic word even when it may seem unreasonable, inconvenient, and uncomfortable. According to the world’s standards, following the prophet may be unpopular, politically incorrect, or socially unacceptable. But following the prophet is always right.

  Carol F. McConkie

  Spiritual, Giving, World

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• The lights are better, safer, and start at around $20. They use less battery power. Normally you get 8 to 10 hours of battery life on a standard light. You can get 150 hours with the LED.

  Mark Hall

  Light, Batteries, Use

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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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• English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

  Lytton Strachey

  Drama, Mind, Literature

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.58, Delphi Classics

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• Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Europe, Lasts, Asia

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