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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I try to use my influence and empower my community to always question the status quo - whether it relates to broader policy issues or YouTube gossip.
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.
I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has come from the bad boy to being the status quo, really.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.
The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
We can't afford to just nibble around the edges of the status quo. We need to take the actions to secure our neighborhoods, to make sure that everyone has opportunity.
It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and the major oncology centres. They have too much of an interest in the status quo.
I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.
I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
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.
I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.
We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.
Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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.
I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.
Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
When it all boils down, being Courtney has forced me to be different to the status quo, which means I have gotten to decide on every choice along the way.
Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.
When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.
Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.
The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.
Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.
Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.
A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.
I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.
In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.
The status quo is clearly broken, and we must strive for bigger, bolder solutions that will provide New Yorkers with the support they need to remain in their homes.
Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.
Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.
