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1108 Standard quotes by 880 unique authors

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. — Alanis Morissette
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life. — Susan Orlean
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the… — Camille Paglia
To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to… — Rick Perry
According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with… — Rick Perry
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life. — Vladimir Putin
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living. — Yitzhak Rabin
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. — Sally Ride
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken… — David Rockefeller
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. — Carl Rogers
You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent… — Bernie Sanders
Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs… — Simon Sinek
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the… — Simon Sinek
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. — Susan Sontag
I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself. — Eliot Spitzer
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured.… — Lysander Spooner
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many… — Stendhal
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. — Laurence Sterne
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that. — Billy Sunday
Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company… — James Surowiecki
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing,… — James Surowiecki
Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors,… — Matt Taibbi
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. — Quentin Tarantino
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe… — Hunter S. Thompson
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. — Bill Vaughan

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