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I know I have exacting standards.
Travis Knight /
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
Karl G. Maeser /
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
Ben Stein / Actor
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Silicon Valley
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Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Chuck Jones / Animator
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Jackie
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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Eugene Delacroix / Artist
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Loan
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Actually
Considered
Less
Life Nothing Everything
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I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Expressive
Swiss
Traits
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German
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Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.
Mary Kay Andrews / Writer
Revenge
Tales
Love Men Women
Country Music
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I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.
Alex Morrison /
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Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
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Doe
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Meadows
Waste
Crop
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Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
Deepak Chopra / Author
Ambition
Attachment
Hard Work
Material World
Plans
Seeking
Stressful
Work Hard Work World
Apply
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
D. H. Lawrence / Novelist
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The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss.
Naomi Alderman / Author
Loyal
Publishing
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White / Novelist
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Real Life
Standards
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Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.
Marcia Gay Harden / Film Actress
Differences
Embrace
Lord
Stature
Beauties
Creed
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Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'
Alan Kay / Computer Scientist
Considered
Cope
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Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.
Tecumseh / Tribal Chief
Atonement
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Chiefs
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Greedy
Shed
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