Quotes with stand-up

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  • Ziad K. Abdelnour Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
    Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    American banker (1960 - )
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  • Stephen King Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
    Just After Sunset (2008) 531
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Adam Savage Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Rosa Parks Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Charles Swindoll Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Bill Burr Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Bryan Callen Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Billy Gardell Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p.96
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bette Davis The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Jack Welch The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
    Jack Welch
    American businessman, author, and chemical engineer (1935 - 2020)
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  • I. F. Stone The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.
    I. F. Stone
    American journalist and writer (1907 - 1989)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
    The Devil's Disciple (1901)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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