#standard

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#excellence #high #high standards #look #standards

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. ↗

— Martha Beck

#arbitrary #beauty #beliefs #body #exists

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#care #denying #else #embracing #get

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#anything #conform #conformist #hates #nonconformist

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#hart #i #i think #jazz #knowledge

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#change #cheesy #end #even #go

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

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. ↗

— Tom Ford

#beauty #decade #era #grew #i

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#decent #decent standard #enabling #generations #living

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#depended #human #human lives #judged #lives