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The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.
Richard V. Allen
People
Important
High
Some
High Standards
Never
Perhaps
Most
Policy
Because
Been
According
Upheld
The Most Important
Proceeds
Plan
Transitions
Personnel
Successful
Choice
Standards
My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.
Rihanna
Me
Mother
Would
Certain
Standards
Raised
I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.
Rio Ferdinand
Myself
High
High Standards
Know
Always
Up
Pitch
Them
Standards
Lived
Season
Set
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
Rita Coolidge
Jazz
Record
Make
Want
Wanted
Jazz Record
Standards
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
You
Culture
Become
Peers
Jimmy
More
Davis
Songs
He
New
Supposed
Know
Boy
How
Were
Goes
Heath
Create
Your
Miles
Miles Davis
Standards
Cool
Play
Played
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
Robert Gottlieb
Love
Art
Long
Dancers
Run
Bad
Temporarily
Only
Long Run
Audience
Ballets
Art Form
Yes
Form
Lowering
Useful
Standards
Fun
Mediocre
Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.
Robert Gottlieb
School
Despite
Rigid
More
Paris
Share
Opera
French
Traditions
La
Than
Done
Famous
Standards
Company
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
Benefits
Value
Worldwide
Approach
Markets
Proliferation
Must
Be Careful
More
Never-Ending
New
Global
Era
Holds
Regional
Avoid
Standards
Multilateral
Search
Chains
Actor
Wider
Careful
It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.
Ron Davies
Health
Care
Our
About
More
Economic
Purpose
Delivery
Performance
Democratic
Health Care
Educational
Wales
Improving
Getting
Standards
Raising
I'd say 50 on men is like 33 on women in Hollywood. The standards - it's just the way we do our storytelling. And I hope it will change, because I think it's dumb.
Ron Livingston
Hope
Change
Women
Will
Men
Think
Our
Way
Say
Like
Because
Dumb
Just
Storytelling
Hollywood
Standards
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Knowledge
Personality
Only
Springs
Subject
Which
Us
Standards
Satisfies
Inner
External
Inner Life
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
Ruth Benedict
Life
History
First
Community
Down
Individual
Accommodation
His
Foremost
Handed
Patterns
Standards
I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.
Ryan Holiday
Behavior
Fact
Feel
Cover
In Fact
Disingenuous
Standards
Many
Agree
Wholeheartedly
Media
If Leander Paes can be playing in Grand Slams at 44 and Narain Karthikeyan race at 40 and be so successful at it, I see no reason why I can't play at 34. They are my motivation, as they have set targets and standards for people like us to achieve.
S. Sreesanth
People
Achieve
See
No Reason
Like
Motivation
Targets
Grand
Grand Slams
Race
Us
Successful
Reason
Standards
Why
Play
Playing
Set
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
Worth
Men
Politicians
Aggressive
Fighting
Intimidated
See
Courageous
Because
Female
Am
Person
Get
Behaviour
Anything
Standards
International
Many
I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.
Sandra Brown
Myself
Writing
Made
Trouble
Become
Those
Never
Got
Still
Impose
Escape
Role
Any
Straight
Standards
Chance
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
Beauty
Favorite
Kind
Favorite Thing
Magazines
Push
Like
Look
Makes
Queer
Against
Really
Special
Standards
Unique
Thing
Drag
Need
The brand new user interfaces that Nintendo invented often faced skeptical views before a hardware launch but wound up becoming de facto industry standards.
Satoru Iwata
Before
Nintendo
Launch
Wound
Faced
Invented
Facto
New
Industry
Becoming
Up
Brand
Brand New
Often
Skeptical
Views
Standards
User
Hardware
These sci-fi fans are phenomenal in the standards that they hold you to.
Scott Bakula
You
Fans
Sci-Fi
Hold
Standards
Phenomenal
By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.
Scott Bakula
Trek
Wildly
Television
Television Show
Run
Except
Any
Successful
Episodes
Show
Standards
Star
Star Trek
President Obama's own administration has publicly admitted that under the current framework, Syrian refugees cannot be vetted in a way that meets the rigorous security standards we rightfully expect.
Scott DesJarlais
Own
President
Meets
Framework
Way
Syrian
Rightfully
Security
Obama
Rigorous
Administration
Admitted
Expect
Current
Refugees
Cannot
Standards
Publicly
The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.
Scott Pruitt
People
Cafe
Car
More
Purpose
Make
Efficient
Standards
Whole
Actually
Buying
Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.
Sebastian Thrun
Life
Time
Myself
Failure
Fear
Guilt
My Life
Seen
Living
Every
Every Time
More
Tend
Never
Fail
Disappointed
Feel
Lot
Up
Person
Quit
Then
Much
Act
Standards
What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
Serge Lang
Community
Congress
Society
Relations
Also
Scientific
Affect
Upheld
Standards
Large
Including
When we agreed to the changes in the emissions standards and the objectives for 2025 with President Obama, there was a very clear road map that was put in place that required a midterm review, which should have been completed by 2017 and '18.
Sergio Marchionne
Changes
President
President Obama
Completed
Obama
Objectives
Emissions
Put
Road
Clear
Road Map
Been
Review
Very
Place
Which
Required
Should
Standards
Agreed
Map
There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
Sergio Marchionne
Confusion
Doubt
Definition
No Doubt
Causes
Traditional
Conglomerate
Standards
Manufacturing
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