"Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine."
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"All messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English."
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"We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest."
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"You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow."
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"I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards."
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"There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history."
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"It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself."
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"I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself."
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"Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is."
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"There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case."
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"The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic."
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"As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards."
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"For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another."
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"you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard"
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"I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself."
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"Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards."
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"If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process."
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"Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business."
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"Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard."
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"If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard."
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