#standard

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#confidence #global #global market #held #market

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#doing #fifties #going #here #i

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. ↗

— Irwin Edman

#created #largely #least #myth #standardized

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#canada #great #great achievements #helped #innovative

We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#contributed #critical #critical role #industry #inspection

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#condemns #even #his #information #own

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#conventionality #quality #repetitiveness #standards #art

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

#i #make #mediocrity #only #pictures

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#composers #continuum #modern #music #now

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down. ↗

— Suzy Parker

#believe #down #gold #gold standard #i