Quotes About Standards

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

I played every sport in high school for one year. If I couldn't be great at it, I quit. I would rather not do it than be average.

There's always women of many different races on my shows, and there are always women who look many different ways, but there is still a size thing in this industry. It's hard. I mean to have to say, 'I want a larger woman to be an actor on my shows.' Or, 'Find me a larger woman,' is almost insulting to me.

There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

My bar has been raised so high that it has to be something really big to get me riled up and bring out the absolute best in me.

I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.

I don't go out with random people.

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

People are starting to understand: all generic companies aren't created equally.

I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.

I have the feeling that you can get older here in Germany, or in Europe, but in Hollywood, you have to look perfect all the time. So it's really hard.

To be honest, I think it's a fair argument to ask actors not to endorse fairness products. We don't need to be fair in this country, and there's a whole lot of madness about being fair. Many advertisements are projected in a manner that if you aren't fair, you don't get married - and when you get fairer with the creams, you do!

For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.

Any goalkeeper that's going to play for Liverpool is going to be looked at and scrutinised - every shot, everything about it is going to be scrutinised.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

I don't apologize for my clothes. There are a lot of bad dressers in golf, and I don't think I'm one of them. There are a lot of bad dressers in every business.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

Anything can be art but very little is good art.