I’m far from being a consummate artist. I mean, this is just my first album, and the work is very new. I’m just beginning, and I’m certainly not worthy of demigod status. There’s absolutely no danger of me reaching that.
And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we’re just getting started.
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
Irrespective of my father’s support, if people don’t like me there’s nothing my family status can do about it.
Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can’t criticise him. People from the time remember him as an imperialist, a hard-right politician, very instrumental in the oppression of Ireland and the attempt to defeat the general strike.
‘Brave New World’ dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film ‘Gattaca’ updated ‘Brave New World,’ bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
If I know I’m going to be in a little different system, I’m 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors… reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.
After struggling with homelessness like other areas across the state, we bucked the status quo to make San Diego the only big city in California where homelessness went down, not up.
While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it’s clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
Well they’re very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There’s concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there’s concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.
The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.
If you step out and do what you feel is right… and you’re not attacking a person, and you’re attacking a process, and you’re attacking the status quo… and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that’s on them. It’s not on me, and I’m going to do what I think is right.
The Chinese want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have ‘developing nation’ status and are out there as one of the biggest borrowers on the planet from the World Bank while simultaneously trying to play the part of a grown up on the world stage.
Would a President Hillary Clinton and her liberal allies suspend the tax-exempt status of churches deemed ‘not friendly’ to her administration? It is within the realm of possibility considering their hateful beliefs.
People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk.
Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.
Apparently, there are as many as 880 spoken languages in India, out of which 31 languages have been given an official status. To hear, decode, process, understand, speak, wait for the next person to decode your message, process, understand and then reply is to have a conversation.
Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.
Cancer had given me a reverse celebrity status: all the attention for something you didn’t want to be known for. I had crossed over into a new land, the land of Patient. And with every step I was feeling less like Suleika.
The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children’s brains and make them grow up maladjusted.
Policies that aim to promote the livelihood security of the people – promoting employment, improving the nutritional status of children and women, expanding educational opportunities, and providing affordable healthcare – would be the first charge on the budget of a developmental state.
It’s wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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 has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.
Ben Carson has what Iowa caucus-goers favor – the soft touch and outsider status, and no fear of going after Obamacare and the excesses of Washington.
I am proud of Edinburgh’s status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That’s a link worth keeping.
We need to discuss what our own standards are for games writing that falls outside of journalism, and support experimental formats and routes of production that may be more tailored to them than the status quo, because the public at large seems to still think that the only games writing that exists are reviews and news.
Digital is not about putting up your story on the web. It’s about a fundamental redrawing of journalists’ relationship with our audience, how we think about our readers, our perception of our role in society, our status.
Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.
One of the traditional rites of passage for political candidates is the revelation of financial status – a catechism-like recital of money mistakes made and debts owed.
The status quo is presented as something to aspire to, whereas for us, the status quo was something we wanted to shatter in order to create the space for people to choose for themselves.
If there’s a kid who’s out there in the world watching wrestling, and they see me, and they know I have my Ph.D. while I was wrestling, that could possibly inspire them to not drop out of school, to not drop out of college, to go and obtain that type of educational status, and that, to me, means a lot more.
Most legacy companies get crushed – they get Blockbustered – because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe’s current institutional infrastructure.
My favorite job is Petro Poroshenko. I am happy with the authority and high status this gives me!
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Israel will not be deprived of its status as a strong, Jewish and democratic state.
The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they’re going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.
Davos is probably the world’s most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don’t be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.
Sports fandom transcends gender, race, language, political preference, socioeconomic status, or any other way you can think of slicing this planet.
If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for life. These men are part of a growing undercaste – not class, caste – a group of people who are permanently relegated, by law, to an inferior second-class status.
Most Ohioans would be surprised to know that the same Wall Street megabanks which received bailouts from taxpayers in 2009 also receive taxpayer-funded advantages today simply because of their ‘too big to fail’ status.
I’m uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don’t think should be of interest to anyone else.
I’ve been fortunate to share the ring with great wrestlers of legendary status and those that will fill their boots in the future.
If you’re just saying, hey, I’m doing this. I’m working to make money. I’m working to increase my status. If that’s all there is, I think you will find out that it’s meaningless.
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
We use fashion for status and to beautify and there’s nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you’re living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you’re living in a decadent world.
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.
