The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
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.
If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.
-Climb out of mediocrity, it has no integrity. Climb out of imitation it is a limitation. Climb higher than copying, it is double standard. Come up to be original
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.
Appreciation and enjoyment of the creatures are the hallmark of God's dominion and therefore the standard by which our own attempt to exercise dominion must be judged.
Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.
