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A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status — D. B. Weiss

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status. — Abigail Biddinger

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status. — George Dzundza

Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability. — Mimi Kennedy

Stand up for who you are. Reject the status quo! — Tara Adams

Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on. — David Ogilvy

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior. — Chris Argyris

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status. — Patrick J. Kennedy

Status symbols are poor excuses for values. — Mary Browne

If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life. — Steve Maraboli

I tend to hide behind my status of being a diva; it's easy for me to embrace that part of me and seek confidence by being a bit outrageous at times. — Alex Newell

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. — Theodore Roosevelt

Nestor is the spokesman for the status quo, for the tradition-hallowed belief that institutional power equates with unquestioned authority. — Caroline Alexander

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America. — William J. Clinton

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started. — Rick Perry

A Facebook status is annoying if it primarily serves the author and does nothing positive for anyone reading it. — Tim Urban

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok. — Dick Gephardt

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be. — Alain De Botton

But in a world where victimhood has become status, souls go unexamined for hardness. — John Ortberg

For all practical purposes, soldiers in the field have the status of slaves, the prisoners of their grand illusions, their training, and their army. — Ann Jones

Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo. — Scott Hammerle

For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud. — Stella Young

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo. — Jacqueline Novogratz

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them. — Nate Berkus

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. — Ronald Reagan

Your wealth and so called status can not earn real respect for you in the society , if you are characterless (have no purity). — Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri

He offered her power, money, status ...
a giant prison, all in exchange
for only ... her soul. — Coco J. Ginger

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing. — Ellen Glasgow

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented. — Susan T. Fiske

Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys. — Margery Wilson

The terms 'Husband' and 'Wife' are inappropriate. They are only companions ad partners. One does not slave for other. They both have equal status. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

You can not aspire for redemption by asking for your reputation back. Redemption requires action, and a reputation is either defended or it is earned. — Leot Felton

Strength is for service, not status — Israel Houghton

Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks. — C. G. Jung

For $425 you can buy pills containing real gold that make your poop sparkle. How have I lived this long without sparkly poop? — Michael Makai

Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth. — Magnus Pyke

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. — Alain De Botton

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. — Steve Carell

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo. — Michael Nutter

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire. — Cesar Chavez

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.' — Sonia Sanchez

It was a terrible thing for a girl to learn. That status is more important than feelings — Nicholas Sparks

Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve. — Israelmore Ayivor

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation. — Ivan Krastev

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights. — Jimmy Carter

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation's general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all. — Riane Eisler

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me. — Steven Gerrard

I'm comfortable enough with my hetero status to say that if I did play for the other team? I wouldn't just fuck Garrett Graham, I'd marry him. — Elle Kennedy

Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in. — Jack Graham

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion). — Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalee

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals. — Tommy Lee

How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status? — John Scalzi

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status. — Andrew Vachss

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol. — Fletcher Knebel

She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and pay cheques for them, it hasn't got value in itself. — Robert Galbraith

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. — Emile M. Cioran

It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops. — Ernest Bramah

It is proper Netiquette to provide positive reinforcement, feedback, for posts we Like. — David Chiles

Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself. — Jackie Haze

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us. — Viola Davis

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. — Mehmet Oz

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night. — Seth Godin

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Our society has made it extremely difficult for those living
with the virus to declare their status — Oche Otorkpa

Rob Mullins is headed for status as an international celebrity. — Leonard Feather

There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many, — Benjamin Graham

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. — Malcolm Gladwell

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status. — Mahatma Gandhi

Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo. — Frank Furedi

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. — PZ Myers

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy. — Stephen Colbert

Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other. — Erin Beresini

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status. — Ron Suskind

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity. — Israelmore Ayivor

For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China. — Jennifer Dunn

Competition for status is a zero sum game — Richard Layard, Baron Layard

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo. — Tony Campolo

We spend so much time striving for status that we don't realise it's the people in our lives that bring us real happiness." I — L. H. Cosway

But at this point, with only minor victories for the rebels, a cease-fire could only result in a return to our previous status. Or worse. — Suzanne Collins

We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything. — Stephen Colbert

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy. — Eli Broad

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked. — Deborah Tannen

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision. — John C. Maxwell

So," I said, "the only way for me to arrive at angel status is to appear in your screwed-up dreams."
"Take it any way you can get it, babe. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things. — Gunnar Myrdal

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions. — A.J. Darkholme

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. — Dan Webster