Charles James
Fashion Designer
"The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about."
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Standards
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Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards."
Plato
Philosopher
"Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"Keep your heel, head and standards high."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"Keep your heels, head & standards high!"
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"Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah."
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"I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down."
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"The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed."
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"I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was."
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"The rotten apple spoils his companion."
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"Don't let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life."
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"When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."
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"If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness."
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"I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself."
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"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."
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"There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness."
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"Comparisons are odious."
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"We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years."
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"Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do."
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"I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience."
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"If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard."
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"I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo."
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"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."
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"Labor is the true standard of value."
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"As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them."
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