Quotes About Standards

we have a tendency to look around at what others are doing and use them as a standard of comparison.

If you seek and accept only the best, you are a maximizer.

All'intervallo Donna Clara ha borbottato a lungo sui costumi di quelle ragazze che tutti vogliono prendersele per amanti perché son belle, ma poi la bellezza le dura niente, un attimo ed è fuggita e Bianca se è onesta, se pensasse a se stessa, in qualche modo, e se non sia ingiusto supporre che le ballerine debbano essere per forza leggere nella loro esistenza quotidiana come lo sono sul palcoscenico.

Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.

In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.

I don't think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

I don't see myself as a rebel. Of course, it all depends on what you consider normal.

All schools that receive public funding should be accountable, yes.

Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded, I wouldn't even present it to a producer.

There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.

People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

I'm constantly trying to redefine what being a beauty queen is.

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

I have never been married. I don't know if I will ever marry, though I hope to. When I am asked why I have not married, I explain that my parents have been happily married for 42 years. The bar feels so very high for that kind of commitment.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

Why the heck do we allow the media to ever tell us someone is gross? It makes me so mad. 99% of the world has flaws.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.