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I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.
Betty Who
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Singer-Songwriter
Albums
My Time
Play
Song
Standards
Waste
Time Me Song
Album
Time Me Live
Filler
Hold
Literally
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Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.
Virginia Postrel
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Writer
Rising
Specialization
Standards
Trade
Village
Best World Living
Nation
Depend
Letting
Region
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Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
Jamie Zawinski
/
Programmer
Beauty
Running
Code
Linux
Software
Standards
Writing
Anyway
Applications
Mine
Runs
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I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh
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Photographer
Alone
Ability
Being Alone
Built
Great Men
High Standards
Loneliness
Lonely
Standards
Also
Seen
Same
Part
Create
Often
High
Themselves
Understandable
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I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world.
Stella Young
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Comedian
Outside World
Standards
Beauty Women Look
Carefully
Dye
Patriarchal
Rarely
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While not a panacea for the nation's illegal immigration problems, employer sanctions are one necessary means of stopping the exploitation of vulnerable workers and the undercutting of American jobs and living standards.
Coretta Scott King
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Author
Jobs
American Jobs
Exploitation
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
Immigration
Panacea
Sanctions
Standards
Stopping
Workers
Employer
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The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
Brian J. White
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Actor
Models
Role Models
Roles
Standards
Trying
Billy
Earl
Harry
James
Measure
Trailer
Williams
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He's more of a slob than you? Instead of condemning, state your standards: 'I need to live in a place that's clean. I respect that it's not a big deal to you, but it's important to me to enjoy my home.' This removes ego.
Matthew Hussey
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Television Personality
Big Deal
Condemning
Standards
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We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
Richard Burr
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United States Senator
Flip
Granted
Light
Reality
Reliability
Standards
Transmission
Current
Current State
Grid
Lights
Switch
Take For Granted
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Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because I am a courageous person or anything, but because I see international standards, and I see that they are worth fighting for.
Safak Pavey
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Aggressive
Behaviour
Courageous
Intimidated
Standards
Politicians
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The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations.
Joseph Stiglitz
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Economist
Favour
Innovation
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Companies
Scientific Progress
Standards
Advanced
Designed
Ip
Negotiations
Profits
Scientific
Sway
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The Common Core State Standards are based on the best international research. They are built on the standards used by the most effective education systems around the world, including Singapore, Finland, Canada and the U.K.
Rex Tillerson
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Canada
Core
Finland
Singapore
Standards
Education Best World
Effective
Systems
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In Ghana, most of the women I know do not identify as sexy, and the reason may be cultural. With imported beauty standards from the West, it seems that many African women feel they need to be fair and slim to be beautiful.
Philomena Kwao
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Ghana
Sexy
Slim
Standards
Beauty Women Beautiful
African
Identify
Imported
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I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to make economies and governments more open and free, thereby encouraging business and entrepreneurship.
Elliott Bisnow
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Encouraging
Jobs
Entrepreneurship
Poverty
Standards
Business Believe I Believe
Open
Create
Economies
Governments
Business World Believe
Raise
Reduce
Sure Way
Thereby
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Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA has the ability to more stringently regulate dust. If the EPA determines more stringent standards are necessary, family farmers and ranchers, as well as rural economies, would be devastated.
Stephen Fincher
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Clean Air
Dust
Epa
Standards
Determines
Regulate
Rural
Stringent
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You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played 'Gingerbread Boy' 'cos he and Jimmy Heath were cool, you know? That's how the culture goes.
Robert Glasper
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Jazz Pianist
Jimmy
Miles
Peers
Standards
Davis
Cool Culture Your
Heath
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Strong, enforceable environmental protections will not only help protect our planet for future generations, it will also level the playing field for small-and-medium-sized U.S. businesses by raising environmental standards.
Suzan Delbene
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Environmental
Generations
Our Planet
Standards
Future Generations
Playing Field
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We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
Bob Filner
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Former U.s. Representative
Teacher
Children
Congress
Standards
Support
Teachers
Attract
Hire
Mandate
Provide
So-Called
Tougher
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Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?
Arabella Weir
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Comedienne
Kids
Class
Race
Standards
Education Good Look
Irrespective
Promote
Raise
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Tests account for only a couple of hours within the six years of a child's primary education, but parents expect to know how their children are doing and the government has a responsibility to monitor and control standards.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
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Standards
Account
Monitor
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I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.
Sherwood Boehlert
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American Politician
Consumption
Fuel
Fuel Economy
Gas
Standards
Dent
Effective
Leaves
Raise
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I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.
Patrick Stump
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Singer-Songwriter
Reason
Standards
Want
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When it comes to drag, my favorite thing we can do is kind of push against the beauty standards of magazines. We don't need to look like supermodels. That what really makes drag special and makes it unique and makes it queer.
Sasha Velour
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Drag
Standards
Favorite Thing
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The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.
Jim Barksdale
/
New World
Products
Standards
Success Great World
Essential
Netscape
Our People
Quickly
Whole New World
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I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Ken Livingstone
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Former Mayor Of London
Authority
Ethical
Ethical Standards
Exercise
Greater
Guidance
London
Office
Regard
Secretary
Standards
Functions
Section
Undertake
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It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.
Douglas Alexander
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British Politician
Credible
Recognise
Standards
Scale
Conservatives
Facing
Neither
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We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object; he must always be considered the subject. That is the basis for our teaching, the absolute standard.
Pope John Paul Ii
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Priest
Bases
Standards
Teaching
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Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
Melvin Maddocks
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Cooks
Standards
Alike
Fast
Journalists
Readers
Stir
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A lot of the drawbacks, a lot of the difficulties that Uber has had, have been completely predictable, and they handled them poorly, so by their own standards they made a lot of mistakes, and I think that they would admit that.
Brad Stone
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Drawbacks
Predictable
Standards
Uber
Admit
Mistakes
Difficulties
Handled
Poorly
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We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.
Sue Kelly
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Member Of The United States House Of Representatives
Abandoned
Clean
Clean Water
Conservation
Legislation
Protect
Spending
Standards
Clean Up
Enables
Implemented
Increased
Sites
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In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors.
Roberto Azevedo
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Be Careful
Benefits
Chains
Never Ending
Proliferation
Standards
Avoid
Holds
Multilateral
Regional
Search
Wider
Worldwide
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When it comes to the teapot tempest that is the Hillary Clinton email imbroglio, the real controversy isn't about politics or regulations. It's about journalism and the weak standards employed to manufacture the scandal du jour.
Kurt Eichenwald
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Editor
Clinton
Controversy
Employed
Journalism
Scandal
Standards
Tempest
Weak
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Manufacture
Regulations
Teapot
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The Republicans have lost their standards; they've lost their principles... Really, that's why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me... They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government.
Sharron Angle
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Politician
Principles
Republican Party
Standards
Taxes
Lower
Lower Taxes
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It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
Thor Heyerdahl
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Ethnographer
Men
Technology
Desert
Destitute
Jungle
Standards
Standards Set
Touch
Among
Considered
Miracles
Rarer
Surrounded
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Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.
Yemi Osinbajo
/
Borders
Civil Society
Governance
Improving
National Borders
Standards
Stepping
Youths
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Navratilova won an astounding 167 singles titles and 166 doubles titles in a career which has spanned nearly 30 years. She changed the game of women's tennis by forcing opponents to reach her standards of fitness and athleticism.
Elizabeth Vargas
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Journalist
Fitness
Opponents
Singles
Standards
Tennis
Titles
Astounding
Doubles
Forcing
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
Mary Augusta Ward
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Novelist
Education
Girl
Astonishing
Higher
Higher Education
Providing
Standards
Taken
Rise
Representative
Schools
Worthily
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The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
George Orwell
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Novelist
Long
Mass
Standards
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I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!
Yasmine Bleeth
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Actress
Bad Girl
Please
Standards
Asked
Date
Obviously
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The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.
John Bruton
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Former Taoiseach
Advancing
Crime
Fighting
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
International
Piracy
Property
Standards
Terrorism
Trade
Working Together
Case
Develop
Eu
Transnational
Violations
Work Together
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Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
Eliot Spitzer
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Former Governor Of New York
Bribery
Corporate
Imagine
Investors
Leader
Manufacturing
Operations
Safety
Standards
Capital
Cared
Respond
Overseas
Plants
Pulled
Wal-Mart
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England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.
John Eccles
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Neurophysiologist
Academic
Assistance
Delightful
England
Grants
Laboratory
Primitive
Research
Standards
Although
Stimulating
Facilities
Present
Secretarial
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Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.
Jon Postel
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Computer Scientist
Products
Standards
Years Ago
Universities
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I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.
Richard Dawkins
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Ethologist
Insistence
Medicine
Mentality
Nursing
Profession
Standards
Doctor
Meeting
Prescribed
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My dad was a laborer. And he used to get up at 5:30 every morning. He worked for 50 years of his life, in all weathers for, by showbiz standards, petty cash. I remind myself of that when I feel a little bit spoiled or hard done by.
Ricky Gervais
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Comedian
Dad
Cash
Done
Little Bit
Petty
Showbiz
Spoiled
Standards
Used
Life Morning Myself
Bit
Laborer
Remind
Worked
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There isn't really any Common Core any more. Each state is able to set the standards for their state. They may elect to adopt very high standards for their students to aspire to and to work toward. And that will be up to each state.
Betsy Devos
/
Aspire
Core
High Standards
Standards
Work May Will
Adopt
Elect
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The best thing they've told me is to be forgiving of yourself as a mother. I think you go into it, and you want to hold yourself to the highest standards, and you want to be perfect. That's not possible. You make mistakes and learn.
Camilla Luddington
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Actress
Forgiving
Standards
Best Yourself Me
Best Me Yourself
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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
John F. Kerry
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United States Secretary Of State
Aids
Duplicity
Global Warming
Hypocrisy
Kyoto
Moving
Rhetoric
Standards
Terrible
Advance
Africa
Global
Walk
Message
Slow
Toward
Warming
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The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.
Eric Schneiderman
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New York Attorney General
Legal
Safety
Social Justice
Standards
Workplace
Long Struggle
Reminder
Triangle
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Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.
Frank Mccourt
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Teacher
Assuming
Autobiography
Journalism
Memoir
Poetic
Scope
Standards
Life Truth Your
Adhere
Stringent
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