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It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. -- Donald Trump
Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament. -- Ahmed Yassin
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board. -- Charles Tupper
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. -- Lee Atwater
I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. -- Idris Elba
I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young. -- Michael Vick
I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint. -- Victoria Woodhull
We may all be sensitive to gluten from a neurological standpoint. -- David Perlmutter
From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true. -- Vince McMahon
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. -- Muhammad Iqbal
The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast. -- Charles Keating, Jr.
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. -- Ted Turner
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other. -- Albert Einstein
I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement. -- Alfred Rosenberg
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. -- Albert Einstein
Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen. -- Leigh Steinberg
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. -- R. D. Laing
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. -- Ernst Mach
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. -- John Updike
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous. -- Dale Carnegie
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. -- Albert Einstein
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all. -- Vaclav Havel
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism -- Nancy Hartsock
China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley. -- Marc Andreesen
Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint. -- Richard Carmona
From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder. -- Temple Grandin
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art. -- Questlove
I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig. -- Ed Sheeran
You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it. -- Mark Z. Jacobson
The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. -- Robert Wise
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible. -- Ben Horowitz
No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union. -- Ellen G. White
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. -- Karel Capek
If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy. -- Jack Nicklaus
I think, from a standpoint of editorial, you know, AOL historically has played in a very deep way across many different verticals in the content space. Huffington Post adds a very large new dimension to that. -- Tim Armstrong
And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education. -- Sam Donaldson
From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model. -- Ben Horowitz
Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. -- Yoshihiko Noda
When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family - not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together. -- Nick Ferguson
The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do. -- Chad Smith
Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement. -- Tiger Woods
I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer. -- Cesar Pelli
I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being. -- Herbie Hancock
My standpoint is armed neutrality. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I approach directing from an actor's standpoint. -- Derek Magyar
From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important. -- Jim DeMint
That is a pretty big deal from a commitment standpoint. -- Edward Kennedy
With anything, you have to approach from an educational, mature standpoint. -- Zendaya
I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint. -- Cynthia Rowley
We don't have music that talks about sexuality from a female standpoint. -- Demi Lovato
Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result -- Yukio Mishima
The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. -- Sxip Shirey
Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer. -- Lady Gaga
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult. -- Darby Stanchfield
From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier. -- Charlie White
From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was. -- James Cook
I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint. -- William Beckett
From a product standpoint, we want every touch point to feel magical. It inspires trust. -- Jack Dorsey
You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use. -- Jerry Vlasak
As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing. -- Megan Hilty
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value. -- Sidney Hook
So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine. -- Franklin Raines
The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint. -- Heather McDonald
To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether. -- Paul Twitchell
I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint. -- Bill Gross
Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is. -- Bill Gross
I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe. -- Keyshawn Johnson
Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth. -- Barney Frank
My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint. -- Derek Fisher
I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society. -- David Cheriton
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience. -- George Herbert Mead
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience. -- George Herbert Mead
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. -- Simon Newcomb
Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved. -- Tara Stiles
From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. -- Steig Larsson
From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. -- Steig Larsson
From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by. -- Mark Romanek
It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person. -- R. A. Torrey
I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery ... -- Dorothy Cottrell
You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed. -- Steven Soderbergh
While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great. -- Boomer Esiason
In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators. -- Victor Koo
You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint. -- Lars von Trier
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. -- Joseph Boyden
There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation. -- John Ruskin
From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted. -- Rick Scott
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Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint. -- Jim Gaffigan
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. -- Alonzo Mourning
From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications. -- Jeff Fitzgerald
Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint. -- Hassan Rouhani
The president's made his position clear. There is a principle involved here from the president's standpoint when it comes to issues of life -- Scott McClellan
I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people. -- Philippe Kahn
I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being. -- Herbie Hancock
From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions. -- Evo Morales
JPMorgan is a very good franchise. And the way you should look at a franchise, a business, is from the standpoint of the customers. -- Jamie Dimon
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
When teams win and play well, everyone benefits from a financial standpoint. But everyone takes pride in people being able to achieve at that level. -- Brendan Daly
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint. -- Sundar Pichai
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic. -- Aristotle
We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become. -- Earl Nightingale
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian. -- Fidel Castro
From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly. -- Carrie Brownstein
Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint. -- Common
Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others. -- Leo Tolstoy
I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people. -- Mo Yan
I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech. -- David Duffield
From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either. -- Bill Nye
The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it -- Charles Stanley
If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big. -- Jeb Hensarling
The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education -- Samuel Blumenfeld
I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is. -- Max Frisch
Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual. -- Boris Sidis
Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run. -- Gifford Pinchot
I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. -- Dick Cheney
A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences. -- Luke Bryan
War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived. -- Jacque Fresco

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