Status Quotes
1261 Status quotes by 934 unique authors
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The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.
— Jane McGonigal
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
— Karisma Kapoor
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should…
— Arjun Rampal
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Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
— Orrin Woodward
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The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
— Kinky Friedman
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Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
— Northrop Frye
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Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the…
— Paul Fussell
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I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap…
— Noel Gallagher
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People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in…
— Adam Garcia
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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
— Paul Getty
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In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
— Robert Graves
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Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and…
— Gail Collins
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If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
— Billy Corgan
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I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
— Andrew Cuomo
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Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I…
— Claire Danes
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The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
— Mitch Daniels
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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most…
— Angela Davis
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That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into…
— Angela Davis
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A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for…
— Evan Davis
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Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which…
— Evan Davis
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I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people,…
— Rita Dove
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