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I don't think the standard of our politicians is very high. And when you get good ones, world-class ones, like a Blair or a Brown or a Thatcher, then they do stand out - they are head and shoulders above everybody else.
Andrew Neil
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Blair
Shoulders
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Everybody Else
Good Ones
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Thatcher
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Business Person
Economics
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Rich
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Together
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Sooner
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Proved
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When you had just three and then four channels, I could always find something that was watchable because the standard of TV was much higher. In those days, they had so much more money to put into so many less programmes.
David Jason
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Actor
Programmes
Channels
Standard
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When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.
Sarah Vaughan
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Singer
Ideas
Twice
Me Important Way
Arrangement
Blowing
Guess
Me Way Important
Hear
Horn
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Sing
Soon
Tune
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison
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4Th U.s. President
Liable
Liberty
Majority
Needs
Opinion
Political
Current
Wrong
In My Opinion
Maxim
Standard
Right And Wrong
Therefore
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My son is fully vaccinated, but there is one immunization on the standard schedule that he did not receive on time. This was meant to be his very first shot, the hep B administered to most babies immediately after birth.
Eula Biss
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Fiction Writer
Birth
Meant To Be
Babies
Immediately
Standard
Receive
Schedule
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I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
Amy Adams
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Actress
Quality
Forget
Never Forget
People
Revenge
Sicilian
Great Me Quality
Pretty
Crossed
Held
Seek
Standard
Repair
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The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.
Michael Owen
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Soccer Player
Achievement
Cups
Forget
Trophies
Winning
Myself Eyes Look
Club
High Standard
Standard
Scoring
World Cups
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I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.
Bret Stephens
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Journalist
Conservatism
Classrooms
Economic Life
Intrusive
Standard
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Every time I sit down with a powerful working mom, I wrestle with whether to ask the 'mom question.' I don't want to be part of perpetuating a double standard by asking women in business a question that men are not asked.
Emily Chang
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Perpetuating
Time Business Women
Double
Standard
Wrestle
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Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.
John Mcwhorter
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Black
Example
Adult
African
Drops
For Example
Gets
Just Be
Learned
Standard
Simpler
Slaves
Ways
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It's important to have transgender representation because we represent the forthcoming generation, and their new perception on the standard of beauty - which I believe is being true to yourself, loving yourself and others.
Carmen Carrera
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Forthcoming
Perception
Transgender
Beauty Believe I Believe
Represent
Generation
Standard
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Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.
Hu Shih
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Philosopher
Beloved
Chinese
Electric
Elimination
Gas
Invading
Lamps
Light
Oil
Shanghai
Shops
Vegetables
Village
Saw
Lights
Novels
Standard
Vegetable
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Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.
Mark Skousen
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Economist
Artificial
Genuine
Latter
Permanent
Stimulus
Boom
Creates
Higher Standard
Standard
Roads
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An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.
Rachel Dratch
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Actress
Advantage
Decent
Eight
Halfway
Improv
Improviser
Standard
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I think your expectations as a player are always high. No matter how high the expectations are from the outside, from media, from fans, wherever, you hold yourself to a high standard and understand what you are capable of.
Christian Yelich
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High Standard
Standard
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The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment, generated jobs, and gave a boost to local economies, all when helping to protect the environment.
Katie Mcginty
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Jobs
Environmental
Boost
Department
Environment
Helping
Investment
Protect
Secretary
Portfolio
Economies
Local
Standard
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In my opinion, you keep the standards very high and you maintain one standard. There shouldn't be two standards for women and men, there should be a standard for this job: To do this job, you should have to do these things.
Mj Hegar
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In My Opinion
Standard
Women And Men
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I am a young woman, with a regional accent, from a working class family, who has had a pretty standard education. So far, so ordinary. But in the places I've worked, one or more of these things would put me in the minority.
Steph Mcgovern
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Accent
Education Family Me
Class Family
Minority
Standard
Regional
Young Woman
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The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Writer
Conscious
Disturbing
My Time
Uncomfortable
Time Me Process
Experienced
Standard
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To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?
Rick Perry
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Governor Of Texas
Boards
Illegal
Library
Thinking
Apply
Board
Card
Photo
Fair
Id
Instituted
Least
Standard
Required
Votes
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According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.
Seth Lloyd
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Professor
Billions
Density
Fluctuation
Galaxy
Quantum
Sitting
Years
Years Ago
Caused
According
Collapsing
Model
Lower
Standard
Perhaps
Slightly
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Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.
Charles Koch
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Businessman
Capitalism
Competing
Easier
Living
Open
Entrepreneurs
Favored
Market
Open Market
Standard
Overall
Provide
Rather
Rewarding
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The industry has a standard way of judging actors: they do ten films, they get X price, and they get this number of awards, seen at page three parties and all that - that is how they measure success. I don't do it like that.
Ram Gopal Varma
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Film Director
Awards
Judging
Measure
Standard
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It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.
Glenn Beck
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Radio Host
Greatest Generation
Living
Greatest
Does
Behind
Choose
Generation
Lower
Standard
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I don't know that I think women have to throw out the fairy tale ending. I just think they have to decide what their fairy tale ending is - and not go with the standard one that everyone's told them they're supposed to have.
Shonda Rhimes
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Screenwriter
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Ending
Standard
Supposed
Tale
Throw
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When I was feeding myself by being a professional actress, I never got a good notice in the 'Evening Standard.' And when I changed direction and became a Labour MP, I was the wrong political party for the 'Evening Standard.'
Glenda Jackson
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Politician
Evening
Feeding
Labour
Good Myself Political
Notice
Standard
Political Party
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There's no set way to do anything. Sometimes you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. Like, you don't have to have a beat to write a song: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music.
Gza
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Hip-Hop Artist
Box
Beat
Music Song Sometimes
Standard
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The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
Simon Greenleaf
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Men
Belonging
Character
Clothes
Worship
Naturally
Attain
Attribute
Endeavors
Object
Standard
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For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.
Dustin Moskovitz
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Entrepreneur
Dollars
Okay
Wealth
Billion
Billion Dollars
Dorm
Earned
Slowly
Standard
They Say
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If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Matthew Modine
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Film Actor
Art
Space
Accomplish
Etc
Gold
Gold Standard
Lighting
Odyssey
Photography
Science Fiction
Creates
Direction
Standard
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Burberry makes the best version of the traditional trench coat, which can have a zipper and button-in lining for colder climes. The belt, which comes standard, should never be buckled but must be casually knotted at the waist.
Roger Stone
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Political Consultant
Version
Belt
Casually
Coat
Colder
Lining
Standard
Trench
Waist
Zipper
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I did a pilot for Fox years ago called 'Faceless,' with Sean Bean. I always thought it was such a cool show because it was really raw. I thought we were pushing it. This was back at a time before there was the 'cable standard.'
Joe Carnahan
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Film Director
Faceless
Pushing
Sean
Cool Time Always
Bean
Cable
Fox
Standard
Pilot
Raw
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
Oscar Pistorius
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Athlete
Running
Fitness
Improving
Past
Ran
Speed
Two
Time Past Will
African
Championships
Olympic
Standard
Peak
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My dad has a certain spirit, a twinkle in his eye, someone who can set a certain standard for players but also convey it with humor. What I learned from him is that coaching is, more than anything, about connecting with people.
Jill Ellis
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Connecting
Convey
More Than Anything
Standard
Twinkle
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
P. J. O'rourke
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Satirist
Assembly
Assembly Line
Benefits
Cows
Livestock
Retirement
Steady
Wages
General
Corporation
Enviable
Line
Standard
Provided
Putting
Retirement Benefits
Steady Job
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There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
Albert Brooks
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Actor
Hollywood
People
Stories
People Always Know
Hire
Instinctively
Standard
Screen
Villains
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If anything, even though I can play in the sort of standard string-bending style, in the B.B. King mold and all of that, I've always had a great interest in the more primitive playing, the open chord playing, rhythm and figures.
Rory Gallagher
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Multi-Instrumentalist
Figures
Mold
Primitive
Rhythm
Chord
Standard
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I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.
Steven Levitt
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Economist
Wisdom
Articles
Believe
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Global Warming
Reading
Standard
Scientists
Warming
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The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.
Lynda Resnick
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Advertising
Dollars
Journalism
Magazines
Revenue
Support
Due
Editorial
Investigative
Less Money
Magazine
Newspaper
Standard
Ratio
Reduced
Thinner
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In a world where distrust of Wall Street has never been higher, we're holding ourselves to a different standard. We also know that if we don't stay really genuine to that, it's very easy for this to sound incredibly disingenuous.
Baiju Bhatt
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Disingenuous
Genuine
Holding
Standard
Wall Street
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In the 1960s, the public demanded seat belts in cars, but automakers balked. Not until government intervened did seat belts become standard equipment. Now, no one would consider buying a vehicle without this basic safety feature.
Eric Schneiderman
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New York Attorney General
Belts
Buying
Equipment
Safety
Vehicle
Seat
Demanded
Feature
Intervened
Standard
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Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.
Michael Haneke
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Film Director
Movie
Directors
Film
Mainstream
Specialists
Violence
Asked
Films
Standard
Personally
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I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.
Jason Calacanis
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Entrepreneur
Commit
Housing
Mess
Suggesting
Unemployment
Standard
Six Days
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How can you expect something out of a young player on the ice when you treat him differently off the ice? I believe in certain acts or behaviors, and it's a standard for me that we're not going to be using anything against anyone.
Zdeno Chara
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Ice
Acts
Behaviors
Believe I Believe Me
Expect
Standard
Treat
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I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.
Charles Jencks
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Landscape Architect
Enlightenment
Ideas
Writing
Myself Know How
Consider
Model
Fossil
Standard
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Whenever someone has an unorthodox approach, different to what a standard boxer would look like, they write it off as being bad. They never seem to look at the normal approach to boxing and think that it might be slightly outdated.
Artem Lobov
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Outdated
Unorthodox
Standard
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Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with 'The Sopranos,' and then on mainstream TV, shows like 'Lost' broke amazing ground.
Nestor Carbonell
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Actor
Advent
Broke
Hbo
Mainstream
Sopranos
Tv Shows
Bar
Cable
Standard
The Sopranos
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I think justice Scalia is really the gold standard of what a justice should be. Somebody, regardless of how he feels on an issue, is going to look at the text of the Constitution, look at the text of the law, and make his judgment.
Ron Johnson
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Gold
Gold Standard
Standard
Regardless
Text
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Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
Benjamin Watson
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American Football Tight End
Abuse
Failing
Nfl
Tests
Breaking
Condone
High Standard
Standard
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