Maintaining High Standards Quotes

#1. I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

Brad Pitt

#2. The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

Cynthia McKinney

#3. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight.

Robert Alan Aurthur

#4. I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

Christina Ricci

#5. Don'tcha wanta live forever?"

"I'm the devil. I am already forever.

Tiffany McDaniel

#6. Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it ... This really may be redefining education.

Kevin Harvey

#7. What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

Calista Flockhart

#8. Life: it's happening beyond the mills, beyond the gates. Out there people chase questions of great importance.

Anthony Doerr

#9. Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

Terry Zwigoff

#10. Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church.

Alan W. Watts

#11. The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.

Chris Crutcher