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I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and they work for me.
Dianne Reeves
Work
Music
Time
Me
My Time
Cover
Lot
Listen
Standards
Things
Harman International's dedication to research and development, as well as its strict adherence to quality manufacturing, are well known throughout the corporate world. The opportunity to lead a company with such high standards, worldwide reputation, and outstanding growth potential is extremely appealing.
Dinesh Paliwal
Quality
World
Opportunity
Strict
Reputation
Dedication
Research
Worldwide
Corporate
Corporate World
Extremely
Adherence
High
High Standards
Potential
Throughout
Lead
Outstanding
Development
Well
Well Known
Known
Standards
Manufacturing
International
Appealing
Company
Growth
I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.
Donal Logue
Writing
Strong
Every
Honestly
TV
Bad
Components
Week
Never
Had
Feel
Like
Felt
Were
Episode
Show
Standards
Many
We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change and extreme weather: air pollution. The EPA's carbon pollution standards are the most significant step forward our country has ever taken to protect our health by addressing climate change.
Donna Brazile
Thankful
Health
Change
Weather
Country
President
President Barack Obama
Aim
Our
Air
Extreme
Air Pollution
Addressing
Significant
Obama
Be Thankful
Step
Taken
Step Forward
Taking
Prime
Most
Protect
Climate
Climate Change
Causes
Pollution
Barack
Barack Obama
EPA
Standards
Forward
Ever
Carbon
Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.
Donna Brazile
Man
Woman
Women
Men
Power
Positions
Assumption
Criticisms
Ability
More
Through
Attained
Powerful
Powerful Man
Comfort
Does
Feminine
Maternal
Provide
Subjected
Same
Any
Anywhere
Flattery
Held
Successful
Should
Standards
Include
Washington
Her
Position
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Life
Reflection
Busy
Aimless
Our
Once
Out
Would
Would-Be
Give
Only
Weeks
Days
False
Question
Get
Same
Just
Want
Procession
Standards
Amount
Vacation
Two
Two Weeks
Startled
Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to.
Doug Ducey
Education
Important
State
State Level
Way
Ensure
System
Minimum
High
Would
High Standards
Expect
Working
Producing
Standards
Actually
Level
Funding
Need
Set
Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.
Doug Ose
First
Community
Medium
Broadcast
Must
Sexual
Factors
Contemporary
Policy
Hinge
Material
Offensive
Patently
Currently
Depict
Measured
Standards
Organs
Describe
Activities
Second
Two
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
Future
Me
Better
Living
Society
Conservatives
Recognise
Crisis
Scale
Neither
Seems
Facing
Economy
How
Answers
Nor
Offer
Families
Standards
Credible
British
You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.
Douglas Conant
You
People
Fly
Leader
Incredibly
Pants
About
Performance
Also
Well-Rounded
Anymore
Working
Your
Standards
Seat
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White
Life
Fall
Real Life
Meet
Characters
Possibly
Bad
Moral
Exacting
Bad Habit
About
Habit
Could
No-One
Know
Readers
Real
Overly
Often
Being
Fictional
Flaws
Standards
Beings
Novels
Apply
The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Edsger Dijkstra
Life
Animal
Training
Will
Nothing
Wild
Wild Animal
Circus
Tricks
Above
Only
Students
He
Disappointed
Like
Learn
His
Expects
Being
Next
Being Prepared
Standards
Prepared
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Elihu Root
War
Peace
Long
Become
Community
Every
Case
General
Habit
Habits
Observed
Continue
Conduct
Form
Gain
Standards
Helps
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
Safety
Plants
Corporate
Respond
Would
About
Investors
Leaders
Operations
Overseas
Wal-Mart
Capital
Really
Bribery
Standards
Manufacturing
Company
Cared
Imagine
Pulled
Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.
Ellen Key
Soul
Generation
Power
Worldly
Unless
Clash
Religious
Morality
Remains
Higher
Takes
Advantages
Noblest
Inexplicable
Led
Account
Often
Human
After
Which
Forms
Ethical
Lower
Standards
Human Soul
Growth
Computer systems could not work without standards - an agreement among programs and systems about how they will exchange information.
Ellen Ullman
Work
Will
Programs
Systems
About
Could
Computer
Exchange
Without
How
Information
Standards
Agreement
Among
Unequivocally, individual human beings who live together will always have different standards of what a 'clean house' looks like.
Emily V. Gordon
Together
Will
Live
Clean
Individual
Individual Human
Like
House
Looks
Always
Unequivocally
Human
Different
Human Beings
Standards
Who
Beings
Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.
Estelle Morris
Education
Knowledge
Quality
Else
Resources
Sector
High
High-Quality
Deliver
Private
Private Sector
Where
Anyone
Anyone Else
Them
Should
Skills
Use
Help
Standards
Raise
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
Ezra Taft Benson
Happiness
Future
Moral
Purity
Which
Your
Standards
Now
Based
Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.
Ezra Taft Benson
Life
People
Sometimes
Young
Those
Seem
Feel
Like
Most
Lord
Blocking
Fences
Young People
Them
Standards
Chains
Activities
Enjoyable
Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
Ferdinand Marcos
World
Our
Talents
Returning
Parts
Becoming
Improve
Workers
Skills
Standards
Helped
Many
Filipino
Technological
I think it's good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
Florence Pugh
Life
Good
You
People
Too Much
Think
Too
Give
Edit
Different
Much
Your
Standards
I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.
Francis Collins
God
Great
Problem
Miracles
Significance
High
Almighty
Concept
Message
Occasionally
Occur
Scientist
God Almighty
Very
Being
Where
Might
Us
Transmitted
Standards
Moments
Set
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
Frank Murkowski
Environmental
Risks
Increases
Our
Out
Pushing
Global
Without
America
Nations
Production
Standards
As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business.
Gabe Newell
Great
Business
Sadness
Hurts
Somebody
Faster
Everybody
Giant
Out
Totally
Windows
Networks
Wireless
Come
Like
Overall
Ecosystem
Get
Just
Standards
Who
Graphics
I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.
Gallagher
Try
Language
Own
Every
Other
Everything
Say
My Own
Like
Audience
Comic
Surprise
Blue
Going
Wants
Them
Use
Standards
Gratuitous
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