In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.
That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do cabaret? Just from hearing the Beatles, it was like, ‘Well, they did it. It’s okay to write something other than a standard rock song.’
The Punch Line is one of the best clubs in the world. It’s an intimidating place if you’re a younger comic, but the community is so lucky to have a place with such a high threshold and standard.
I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I’m just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn’t sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
It’s easy to be patient because you have a guy in the room like Eli Manning who comes in every day, one of the first people in the building and one of the last ones to leave and he’s been in the league as long as he has. So that’s what it takes to continue to get better, and he sets the standard, and I need to reach it.
I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like ‘inherently good’ in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don’t apply. What we’re really looking for is efficiency. It doesn’t do anyone any good to be nice to the weak. In a certain sense, competition is inefficient.
For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don’t condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
Supermarkets have contributed as much to increasing the standard of living in the United Kingdom as almost any government policy. They bring a level of convenience and quality that was unknown to previous generations at a highly competitive price because of their buying power.
I just think, obviously as players, we’re held to a higher standard. I’ve had to watch myself on that, but I think if we’re held to higher standards, the owners should be held to even higher standards.
I think that from day one, when it became clear that ‘Wicked’ was going to have a life, that we have set a standard for ourselves that we are never going to shortchange the audience; that every person that we put into that musical is going to be held to the highest standards; and that nobody is going to be coasting.
Beauty has no set standard. It is honestly in diversity.
I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
Usually, I concentrate on work for a certain time, and finish when I clear a standard I set myself. But with ‘Mononoke,’ the production was so drawn out, it took forever to finish to my satisfaction.
I don’t think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.
You can’t hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I’m just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.
Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization’s history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.
My standard for the women in my life is like, ‘If no man can treat you better than I can treat you, they can’t come.’ You gotta step up to the plate. With respect, with acknowledgment, with support.
We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.
There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don’t fit society’s standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it’s OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food… The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
The term ‘steampunk’ itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like ‘Big Bang’ in cosmology, the diss became the standard.
Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others.
Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing – so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.
I do not think of myself as a standard bearer for Asian players. I just try to work hard for myself.
Why do people hate God?… One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he’s transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.
We need storytelling from all angles. We need men, women, and trans people participating in all aspects of filmmaking; this is the only way we can depolarise the age-old standard of singular perspective.
Music should change. Technically, we have come a long way – matching up to the international standard. It is good.
I started going training with Southampton, and they were selecting the team for the under-9s. I did a six-week trial and got in. I was quite lucky to play at a good standard from a very young age.
To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.
According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we’re sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.
As an actor, it’s fun to play guys who aren’t just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you’re asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they’re living by.
Art points to things. It’s a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.
Once you’ve lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It’s a mentality, a double standard of existence.
You see the standard hunting show; it’s an outdoor television show. A lot of times, it’s just a guy sitting in a tree, waiting on an animal. I don’t think it does it justice, and I don’t think it captures the enjoyment and the splendor of the incredible outdoors and the feeling of being out there.
When I work with other artists, I really want to bring out the most in their voices and I want to hold myself to the same standard.
I’ve always been dabbling in suits, but like a lot of people in the neighborhoods I grew up in, I had my snapback; I had my v-neck. I still got them in the closet. I got my J’s, my Forces; it was standard.
Life is a question without a standard answer.
‘That’s What She Said’ is not Hollywood’s standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up ‘girl’ women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
