Quotes About Standards

The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.

There was a solid six-month period where I was going out on castings and I was laughed out of the room because I'm much more petite than other models.

The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

I've always done things according to my principles and morals and some things just don't fit in.

Perfect is not on the menu. Nobody is going to be your ideal candidate. You can't dream somebody up out of nothing that's going to be the perfect candidate, so you do have to pick between a series of bad choices.

Besides, I'm looking for a man who doesn't have quite the mileage and the wear and tear on him as you do!

It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.

sStip settling for someone who doesn't meet your expectations and find someone whom already holds the characteristics you're looking for.

Stop dwelling and wishing they'd see the light and treat you better. Instead, forgive yourself for keeping low standards, and love yourself enough to raise them.

Beauty is a matter of perspective.Darling keep in mind that those standards that you're trying so hard to meet were made by imperfect beings themselves. Love yourself more.

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

I'm using beauty to subvert the system.

There's no such thing as ugly.

Just because she has high standards, doesn't mean she's high maintenance. Don't confuse the two.

On another level compulsion would change matters drastically: the kind of society that would emerge if such acts of redistribution were voluntary is altogether different—and, by our standards, infinitely preferable—to the kind that would emerge if redistribution were compulsory.

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You always say oh, that's so unprofessional as though there's some definition of professional that's also a moral imperative for how to behave.

It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?

It's the same for women not being thin enough, or men not being rich enough. It's just what our culture would have you believe. Don't believe it.

Só porque o Turner usa aquele estilo manhoso depois das seis da tarde. Lollapalooza julga que é porreiro andar descalça e eu tenho uma cadela labrador no meu escritório, isso não significa que pode baixar os seus padrões.

There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.

The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking beautiful. If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.