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Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.
Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.
Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.
You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is 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.
We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
I think I've learned quite a bit about the battle of the sexes or, at least, how to keep the status quo a little bit more.
Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.
We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.
It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.
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.
Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.
The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.
This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
The al-Aqsa compound is occupied territory that, as per the status quo, is administered by the King of Jordan and the Muslim Waqf.
Trump is going to be the change agent. Hillary Clinton is going to be the status quo. Bernie Sanders is not going to be in the mix.
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.
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.
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.
We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That is not democracy.
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.
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.
Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.
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.
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.
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
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.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
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.
I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.
Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.
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.
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.