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Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.

To be in the England squad, you have got to be playing well and your standards have got to be up there.

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

As a former teacher, I have a high passion for quality student learning and high standards.

I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming.

I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public.

I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.

Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they're wrong.

San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public safety and fighting for the resources we need.

'Daredevil' is haunted by Frank Miller, from the standpoint of the Frank Miller run on 'Daredevil' is so insurmountable.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.