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Related CARL ICAHN I think Portia's election definitely changes the status quo because it's never been done before, and... MARLON HILL MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo. RAJEN JANI KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR LAURENCE J. PETER DR. LAURENCE J. PETER But the status quo is no longer acceptable, BILL KENNEDY STEPHEN KING RAY A. DAVIS It's really not anybody who wants a particular candidate. It's a bunch of people who like the status... BOB LITTLEFIELD Those benefiting from the status quo, resist change. RAJEN JANI BRAD HENRY The status quo is dead. And that's why people are so nervous. LUTHER JACKSON GEORGE CARLIN I can say that there is a status quo about his condition. ANUPAM VERMA As far as I can tell, things are status quo. There's nothing out of the ordinary. NICO MELENDEZ ROBERT BYRNE All it does is recognize the status quo, VICTOR CLARK EMMANUEL MACRON The status quo is never news, only challenges to it. MALORIE BLACKMAN CLARK KERR TRUMAN DOCTRINE The last 24 hours status quo remains. ANUPAM VERMA The last 24 hours status quo remains. DR ANUPAM VERMA RONALD REAGAN RONALD REAGAN NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to cha... FRANK POPOFF RONALD REAGAN Things are pretty much status quo with the sexual-tension friend. COLSON WHITEHEAD REBECCA SOLNIT Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself. GEORGE F. WILL As a political matter, it's very much in Gov. Bush's interest for voters to feel unsettled with the ... GEOFF GARIN NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI JULIE BISHOP The status quo in storage has existed for a long, long time, ... but I think the applecart is about ... STEVE DUPLESSIE Reform is always a challenge, as it requires us to confront the status quo. But that is no justifica... JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the s... MICHAEL OREN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH RICHARD HOLBROOKE ELLEN HOPKINS The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo. BOB IGER RICK PERRY I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and chan... SHELDON ADELSON JACOB M. APPEL JANE ELLIOT WARREN BENNIS WARREN G. BENNIS We have to improve in all areas, we can't stay status quo, WALLY BUONO Both sides thought that the status quo was not good enough. ADAM ROBERTS Often the status quo of man is mired in the quicksand of doubt, arrogance, disobedience, and habit. JAIME CONTRERAS WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON BILL CLINTON The United States wants a manageable status quo. It doesn't want to see things out of control. GEORGE TSAI I don't think anybody welcomed that proposal. It wouldn't serve the interests of those who benefit f... STEVEN AFTERGOOD As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-prov... LILY COLE I react with skepticism and reservations. This is a violation of the church's status quo, because ea... ARCHBISHOP ARISTARCHOS THEODORE ROOSEVELT CORNEL WEST STEPHEN COLBERT It seems like it will be fairly status quo. LAURA HOYDICK BENIGNO AQUINO III RONALD REAGAN HOWARD SCHULTZ CRAIG FERGUSON I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this... CRISPIN GLOVER Usually, the choice is the status quo, or change with risk, but Koizumi has managed to present an im... STEVEN REED ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Like many others, she'd received a threat from the Riffraff - though she wasn't sure she understood ... BASMA ABDEL AZIZ JOAN D. VINGE RONALD A. HEIFETZ JOHN GARDNER RON SUSKIND DONALD MILLER How can you test whether something's an assumption? Try this: switch things around, and check how ba... ANNABEL CRABB Our assets are down, so fees are almost status quo. GORDON FORRESTER Basically, the United Nations stands for the status quo in international affairs, unless of course t... MUHAMMED HAIDER CHUCK PALAHNIUK The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, in... THERESE FOWLER RICHIE NORTON BRUCE RAUNER GERRY ADAMS SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY Every new day is an opportunity for me to stop embracing the status quo. I just want to break the co... IFEOLUWA EGBETADE Everything's status quo. We're just going to sit tight on that and see what happens. SAM PERLOZZO We’re not going to accept the status quo. We have to increase
degree attainment and doing so in a ... MICHAEL HARRIS DAVID ROCKEFELLER WARREN ELLIS JELLO BIAFRA The mainland will not agree to maintaining the status quo then. Talks will be on reunification ... W... XU SHIQUAN WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind close... LAURA MILLER You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, ... CARLY FIORINA The Democrats have certainly never been satisfied with the status quo, with economic inequities and ... BILL MAER We are not talking about adding anything new, this is simply trying to maintain the status quo. CAROL COMEAU Within predictability resides a soothing agent of sorts…to where remaining stagnant and status quo... SUMMER JEIRLES The status quo can't continue. It should be clear that Northwest isn't too big to fail. BRIAN LEITCH I find this very regressive. We're just staying in status quo. I thought many of us were hired to mo... MARK WEINER
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are currently satisfied with the status quo, [I am] not satisfied with the status quo. 
Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because... 
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the sta... 
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. 
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. 
Is there a status quo in the house? 
Status quos are made to be broken. 
The status quo is simply unacceptable. 
The status quo sucks. 
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. 
The status quo leads to self-destruction. 
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed. 
The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred. 
Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in. 
Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ''the mess we're in.'' 
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. 
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. 
Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that ... 
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. 
We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems. 
question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses... 
The status quo is stable, but it won't be stable forever, 
She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo. 
And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st... 
The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are t... 
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. 
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. 
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. 
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone... 
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone... 
The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a be... 
When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a res... 
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. 
I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets vic... 
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death ... 
Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. 
Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you... 
Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown 
Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines. 
All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of w... 
One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than develop... 
The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction. 
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it mi... 
Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?
We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system. 
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintai... 
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our dut... 
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the s... 
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up a... 
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the... 
. . . a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot bric... 
When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your p... 
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lu... 
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. 
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - mone... 
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. 
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by ... 
In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern stat... 
Death is a monster; death is horrible. 
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of g... 
I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan... 
I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circu... 
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic. 
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinc... 
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead,... 