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• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Standard, Playing, Behavior

• Retiring for good wasn’t difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I’d set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  Ian Botham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Myself, Difficult, Standard

• The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, Standard, Simple

• The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Standard

• Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Standard

• We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver’s license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.

  Bill Shuster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Standard

• The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

  Gijs de Vries

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Global, Regional, Standard

• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  Florence Kelley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Industry, Standard, Women

• When I see my staff take a step back because I’ve lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn’t meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

  Curtis Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cool, Standard, Explain

• We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

  Chuck Mangione

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contemporary, Standard, Rock

• The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

  Garry Shandling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hosting, Standard, Show

• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Standard, Useful

• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  Edmund Burke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statesman, Standard

• I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Standard, Applied

• The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That’s what antitrust is all about.

  Charles James

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Standard, Cure

• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  Edward John Markey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New York, Safety, Standard

• Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

  Charles Goodyear

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Standard, Estimate

• A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

  Edward Sapir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in International, Language, Standard

• When you’re around someone good, your own standards are raised.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Around, Standard

• I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn’t want it to be a standards record.

  Rita Coolidge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Jazz, Standard