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Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
Joyce Maynard
Free
Subscribe
Types
Some
Remain
Writer
Mere
Mortals
Like
Salinger
Person
Being
Literary
Might
Notion
Standards
Apply
I always prefer to save up and have a four- or five-star holiday rather than take lots of little breaks where the standards aren't so high.
June Whitfield
High
Rather
Take
Always
Lots
Up
Than
Where
Holiday
Breaks
Little
Prefer
Standards
Four
Save
Our standards at Bayern are extremely high, with every training session at very high intensity.
Jupp Heynckes
Training
Every
Our
Extremely
High
Very
Intensity
Standards
Session
Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
Karen Handel
Alone
Time
Responsibility
Own
Criteria
Able
Parenthood
Attacks
Highest
Checked
Without
Occurred
Nonprofit
Private
Vicious
Planned
Interference
Planned Parenthood
Organizations
Standards
Coercion
Right
Level
Last
Set
Last Time
If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.
Katherine Harris
Justice
Law
Action
Intervened
Recount
Could
Had
Allowed
Mere
Supposed
Supreme
Supreme Court
Gore
Court
Any
Rewritten
Procedural
After
Which
Uniform
Then
Us
Standards
Certified
Al
Al Gore
Florida
Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.
Katie Hafner
World
Internet
World Wide Web
Addressing
Web
Net
Could
Never
Open
Over
Global
Reach
Documents
Without
Linking
Did
Send
Transferring
Standards
Technical
Wide
Started
Set
The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They're more about character, and I love that.
Keala Settle
Love
Character
Beauty
About
More
Parts
Around
Get
Standards
European
Based
Play
To draft a bill of rights that simply replicates the European convention on human rights gives the game away; namely that the Human Rights Act does, in fact, offer appropriate protection to all of our citizens according to universally accepted standards.
Keir Starmer
Game
Rights
Protection
Human Rights
Our
Appropriate
Citizens
Gives
Fact
Simply
Namely
Accepted
Does
According
Offer
Human
In Fact
Convention
Bill
Act
Bill Of Rights
Standards
European
Away
Draft
Universally
I would love to do an album of standards!
Kelela
Love
Would
Standards
Album
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
Respect
Guidance
Will
State
Secretary
Section
London
Greater
Exercise
Undertake
Office
Authority
Any
Regard
Ethical
Act
Standards
Functions
Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it... This really may be redefining education.
Kevin Harvey
Education
People
Luxury
Meet
Those
Criteria
High
Admission
About
Cost
High Standards
Consumer
Maintaining
Goods
Redefining
Access
Limiting
Brands
Artificially
May
Really
Standards
Who
Elite
Number
I don't have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine.
Kim Woo-bin
Wine
High
High Standards
Over
Taste
Prefer
Standards
People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.
Kirk Cameron
Me
People
Other
Adopt
Had
True
Liked
Always
Been
Want
Standard
Standards
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
Politics
Email
Weak
Scandal
Tempest
About
Journalism
Employed
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Real
Clinton
Controversy
Manufacture
Regulations
Standards
Teapot
I've always tried to set my standards high on a daily basis.
Kyle Korver
Daily
High
Tried
Always
Standards
Daily Basis
Basis
Set
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Larry Flynt
Will
Community
Ruled
Tried
Case
Individual
Obscenity
Particular
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Whenever
Place
Should
Communities
Standard
Standards
Based
Set
I can do both of the things I love, which is raise awareness for TSS and work as a model to help change beauty standards. It was a win-win.
Lauren Wasser
Work
Love
Change
Beauty
Awareness
Win-Win
Both
Model
Which
Help
Standards
Things
Raise
We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.
Lee H. Hamilton
Democracy
Law
Insist
Accountability
Live
Aid
Market
Rule
Rule Of Law
Embrace
Support
Countries
Governments
Up
American
Reforms
Should
Transparency
Standards
Receiving
When 'Psycho' came out back in 1960, it was seen as an abomination and as this really gory thing. We all watch 'Psycho' today, of course, and think it's so tame since there's no blood or any real gore in it. But for the standards of the day when it was released, it was extreme.
Leigh Whannell
Today
Day
Seen
Think
Back
Extreme
Released
Out
Since
Gore
Course
Tame
Real
Came
Blood
Any
Psycho
Really
Standards
Thing
Watch
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
Lesley Garrett
Music
Best
Musicians
People
Able
Making
Trained
Committed
Confident
Artists
Us
Really
Should
Standards
Present
Elite
Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
Li Peng
Today
People
World
Living
India
Both
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Economy
Committed
Being
Biggest
China
China And India
Standards
Raising
I have extremely high standards.
Lisa Su
Extremely
High
High Standards
Standards
What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.
Lois Capps
Creativity
Energy
Resource
Our
Scale
Develop
Abundance
Renewable
Alternative
Efficiency
Improve
Energy Efficiency
Really
Use
Full
Standards
Need
Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.
Loretta Lynch
Food
Responsibility
Our
Those
Facilities
Cleanliness
Maintain
Sell
Families
Store
Package
Standards
Who
Serve
Basic
All the education programmes provided by our foundations are in pursuit of a common vision to upgrade education standards and quality of life.
Lucio Tan
Life
Education
Quality
Vision
Programmes
Our
Pursuit
Quality Of Life
Provided
Upgrade
Common
Standards
Foundations
People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.
Lucy Powell
People
Political
Living
Savings
Our
Sides
Crisis
Rightly
Jobs
Leaders
Concentrate
Political Leaders
Banking
Want
Standards
Damage
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