Quotes with stand-up

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  • Barbara Boxer When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Billy Sunday Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn't one leg to stand on.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bobby Darin Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Newhart With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Aldous Huxley Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alexander Herzen Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bernie Sanders Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Rosa Parks You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Miller You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bill Burr You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bob Dylan You lose yourself, you reappear
    You suddenly find you got nothin' to fear
    Alone you stand with nobody near
    When a trembling distant voice unclear
    Startles your sleeping ear to hear
    That somebody thinks they really found you.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ben Vereen You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • William Shakespeare A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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