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Quotes About Standards

Without federal standards for school lunches, candy bars, packaged snacks and soda can be offered to our children in school.
~ Margaret Cuomo
I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.
~ Leon Russell
These sci-fi fans are phenomenal in the standards that they hold you to.
~ Scott Bakula
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
~ Orrin Hatch
Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.
~ John Sununu
I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.
~ Bridget Fonda
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
~ George Pierce Baker
I would love to work on a film which would be close to Hollywood standards.
~ Vijay Antony
You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
~ Malcolm McDowell
People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.
~ Jim Inhofe
I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!
~ Yasmine Bleeth
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
~ Stanley Fish
We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.
~ Sue Kelly
They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.
~ Thomas Keller
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
~ Jane D. Hull
We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.
~ Mike Davidson
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
What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
~ Jane Alexander
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.
~ Serge Lang
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
~ Joyce Maynard
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
~ Jamie Zawinski