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I want to break that typical Asian female stereotype. There's this standard where they're all calm. I want to break that.
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
Miami is a place that if you like to work, then it's good for you. Because I feel like they hold you to a higher standard.
I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.
When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.
I try to challenge the players. If they have reached a standard I challenge them to grow even more because you never know.
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
As a gambler, I hold myself to an especially high standard of honor, and it disgusts me when people try to cheat at games.
That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.
I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
The standard of music has come down. There is only screaming and shouting in songs today and I don't want to sing such songs.
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
You need to perform consistently, and if you're raising the standard, you have to stand by it. You have to keep on doing well.
The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.
Since the founding of our nation, our democracy has been the beacon of hope and the standard by which other countries look to.
People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.
The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.
We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.
You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
In the beginning, YouTube content wasn't up to the same standard as traditional media. Now, people are using it as a launchpad.
It's rather nice to think that a song such as 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' is a standard that will be around for many, many years.
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.
I know I'm fly - don't get me wrong. But I don't look, like, standard Hollywood. As a comedian, it's something you learn to use.
To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.
Clothing for larger sizes doesn't have to look frumpy and old; it should seamlessly integrate fashion - like Universal Standard.
We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.
You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.
I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.
I have met parents all over the world, and they all just want to raise their kids to a higher standard than they were raised with.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.
When I work with other artists, I really want to bring out the most in their voices and I want to hold myself to the same standard.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
We have this weird beauty standard where women, like, shouldn't grow: what we think is feminine is often what is also pre-pubescent.
The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.