Quotes of: Standardized Keyword

The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, the norm.

chimamamanda Ngozie Adichie

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

John Sununu

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Jonathan Kozol

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

Cameron Mackintosh

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

Michael Bergdahl

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

Richard Greenberg

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

Jonathan Zittrain

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

John Paul Stevens

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Don Ellis

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.

Kendrick Lamar

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Neville Marriner

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

Bianca Jagger

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

Paul Thomas Anderson

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

America Ferrera

A true comedian is really a good humanitarian, but a very rare few match up to that high standard.

Anuj Somany

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Tommy Thompson

Martie was large, at least by Inuit standards, with skin the colour of an heirloom suitcase and a voice like a cartoon train wreck.

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