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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
James Frey
Life
People
Some People
My Life
Think
Memoirs
Some
Perfect
Write
Never
Journalistic
Obviously
Always
Goal
Literature
Create
Held
Should
Standard
Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
James Surowiecki
Sports
Changes
Nike
Once
Consolidated
Foods
New
Name
Known
New Jersey
Were
Lee
Blue
Oil
Oil Company
Ribbon
Worked
Used
Standard
Company
Now
Jersey
Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.
Jamie Cullum
Me
People
Song
Singing
Think
Tend
Parkinson
Category
Know
Most
Contemporary
Discovered
America
Which
Pop
Pop Song
Sea
Standard
Original
Playing
I hold myself to a high standard on and off the field.
Jared Goff
Myself
Field
On And Off
High
High Standard
Off
Hold
Standard
Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.
Jarvis Cocker
Work
Good
Great
Me
Song
Dog
Words
Important
Lyrics
Good Song
Fairly
Really
Rescue
Standard
Function
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
Work
Care
Control
Week
Takes
Days
Hour
Hours
Until
Mess
Housing
Up
Debt
Unemployment
America
Commit
Gets
Move
Six
Six Days
Working
Standard
Right
Suggesting
Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.
Jason Kander
Important
Unions
Living
Continue
American
Happen
Whether
Working
Standard
Union
Raising
I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.
Jason Molina
Music
Listening
Made
Long
Believe
Side
Records
High-Quality
Make
Because
How
Still
Doing
Up
Going
Grew
Standard
Vinyl
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
Jean de la Bruyere
Work
Good
Thoughts
You
Judge
Master
Other
Spirits
Inspires
Lifts
Noble
Look
Any
Craftsman
Product
Your
Standard
Bold
A woman needs to be put together more than a man. If she isn't, she looks like she's not up for the job. There's a different standard. Those are the rules, and I have to live by them.
Jeanine Pirro
Needs
Man
Together
Woman
Job
Live
Rules
Those
More
Put
Like
She
Looks
Up
Than
Man Needs
Different
To Live By
Them
Standard
The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.
Jeb Hensarling
Freedom
Opportunity
Will
Thought
Pain
Living
Bear
Long-Term
Up
America
Children
Cannot
Lower
Standard
Less
Growing
Growing Up
Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.
Jeff Flake
Best
Country
Meet
Extremely
High
Given
Excellent
Jon
He
Arizona
How
Model
Senator
Candidates
Bar
Race
Standard
Eventual
Serve
Set
Every industry has standards. For example, the motion picture camera, there are 2 or 3 film formats with a number of brackets and number of speed, a shooting speed that is standard. If we didn't have that, then some motion pictures will play back too slowly, and people would talk very slowly, and it will be bizarre.
Jeffrey Zeldman
People
Will
Example
Picture
Every
Speed
Too
Back
Bizarre
Would
Some
Slowly
Pictures
For Example
Talk
Industry
Motion
Motion Picture
Motion Pictures
Camera
Very
Shooting
Formats
Then
Standard
Standards
Film
Play
Number
I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty.
Jenji Kohan
Beauty
Public
Public Figure
Held
Certain
Standard
Figure
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
Jennifer Weiner
Family
Man
Woman
Book
Old
Feelings
Think
Considers
Topics
Critic
About
Beach
Something
Writes
Attention
Unworthy
Very
Same
Short
Romance
Holds
Literature
Double
Capital
Standard
Serious
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.
Jeremy Corbyn
You
People
Money
Circle
Pay
Living
Kind
More
Higher
Higher Standard
Wages
Get
Tax
Standard
We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.
Jeremy Grantham
People
Problems
Own
Politicians
Think
Our
Willing
Solve
Rather
Only
Economic
Rational
Could
Had
Economic Theory
Long-Term
Were
Efficient
Than
Human
Human Beings
Interest
Standard
Theory
Beings
I know when I left the game, I could have played more. There is no question. I think I could have played at a very high level, too. But I could not play the way everyone wanted me to play. And I was not willing to compromise what I felt was a standard that I had established in this league and, particularly, for our fans at home.
Jerry West
Home
Me
Game
Fans
Think
Too
Everyone
Our
Way
Willing
High
High Level
More
Compromise
No Question
Could
Had
League
Know
Particularly
Felt
Question
Left
Very
Established
Wanted
Standard
Play
Level
Played
In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
Jerry Yang
Me
Crazy
Made
Long
Characters
Able
Some
Something
Small
He
Feet
Like
Dealer
Private
His
Lotus
Very
Artist
Dynasty
Script
Available
Fortunate
Standard
Yuan
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.
Jewel
Love
Creative
Amazing
Too
Tool
Books
Kids
Out
High
Would
About
High Standard
Outlet
More
Poetic
Write
Writers
Children
Fantastic
Really
Standard
Teaching
Creative Outlet
Thing
Imaginative
In South Africa, we drive on the left-hand side, and most of the cars are standard, so I learned with a full-gear transmission with a clutch and hill starts. I've never driven an automatic until I came to Canada.
Jodi Balfour
Car
Drive
South Africa
Starts
Side
Driven
Never
Most
Hill
Until
Learned
Came
South
Canada
Africa
Automatic
Clutch
Transmission
Standard
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
Song
Key
Try
Will
Point
Write
Cheesy
Arrangements
Go
End
Where
Which
Really
Pop
Pop Song
Standard
Even
I think that from day one, when it became clear that 'Wicked' was going to have a life, that we have set a standard for ourselves that we are never going to shortchange the audience; that every person that we put into that musical is going to be held to the highest standards; and that nobody is going to be coasting.
Joe Mantello
Life
Day
Wicked
Every
Think
Musical
Ourselves
Never
Highest
Put
Clear
Day One
Nobody
Became
Audience
Person
Going
Held
Standard
Standards
Set
The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.
Joel Fuhrman
Problem
Cause
Our
High
Obesity
Fact
Foods
Consumed
Primary
Majority
Calories
American
Current
Diet
The Problem With
Low
Epidemic
Standard
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
John Frame
Conservative
Result
Sometimes
Few
Way
Worship
Churches
Guilty
Has-Been
Puritan
Remains
Leads
Although
Been
Discrepancy
Them
Theology
Standard
Presbyterian
Among
Actually
Orthodoxy
For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinct finds its most insistent voice, what Robert Kagan calls the military 'career path' is not widely seen as a plausible future. Pulling a trigger is what Jose, Tyrone, and Bubba do, not early admission students at the better private universities.
John Gregory Dunne
Future
Better
Path
Seen
National
Military
Finds
Trigger
Admission
Martial
Insistent
Voice
Weekly
Students
Instinct
Most
Robert
Calls
Private
Review
Where
Standard
Plausible
Widely
Early
Career
Career Path
Universities
Pulling
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