Quotes with stand-up

Quotes 261 till 280 of 344.

  • John F. Kennedy The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Jack Handey The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.
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  • Meryl Streep The work will stand, no matter what.
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  • Ben Carson There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
    The Lost World (2015) 72
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Brooks Atkinson There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other's throat.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Carol Leifer There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • John Milton They also serve who only stand and wait.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Byron Dorgan This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Gore Vidal To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Carly Fiorina To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Herzog To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Kofi Annan To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • E. M. Forster Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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