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• I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.

  Charles Barkley

  Wise, Country, Successful

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• If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

  David Wong

  Hate, Standards, Ifs

  David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.359, Macmillan

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• No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Benefits, Slavery

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.21

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• Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Tanks, Three, Four

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• But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.

  Glenn Danzig

  Cds, Stuff

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• I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

  Lee Konitz

  Saxophone, Instruments, Clarinet

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• What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Should Have, Play

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• If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cat, Pet, Size

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

  John le Carre

  World, Standards, Existence

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• And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.

  Robert Englund

  Children, Team, Destiny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds up on Miley.' They're only talking about the one that bent over. So, obviously there's a double standard.

  Miley Cyrus

  Men, Talking, Robins

  "Miley Cyrus' 'Rolling Stone' Cover Shoot". www.rollingstone.com. September 24, 2013.

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• If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

  Verne Troyer

  Talking, People, Double Me

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. That’s an unfair double standard.

  Ellen Page

  Creating, People, Actresses

  "Reading Ellen Page’s Sexuality" by Marcie Bianco, www.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

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• The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is possible to dress up and romanticize our bizarre experiments in social restructuring while disavowing truth or absolutes. But one dares not play such deadly games with the foundations of good thinking.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Laughter, Thinking, Games

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• I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Couple, Years, Class

  "“Undercover Brother”: Neil Patrick Harris Interview". "Hollywood.com" Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

  Aldrich Ames

  Names, Agents, Goes On

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

  Gloria Steinem

  Names, Justice, Calling

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.798, Open Road Media

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• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  Florence King

  Real, Feminism, Literature

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

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• There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Years, Play

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• My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.

  Sarah Millican

  Mother, Mouths, Want

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• Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

  Arnold Rothstein

  Men, Towns, Crosses

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• The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Athlete, Light

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• The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Men, Demand

  Following the Equator ch. 13, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You’re looking at double work.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Two, Transition

  Golden Skate Online Interview, goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

  Lois Capps

  Children, America, Today

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