Quotes with stand-up

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  • Luigi Pirandello A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Ansel Adams A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bob Dylan A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Lionel Trilling A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Annie Dillard A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Carly Craig After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Mark Twain Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Edwin Markham Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Ovid All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Boris Pasternak Am I a gangster or a murderer?
    Of what crime do I stand
    Condemned? I made the whole world weep
    At the beauty of my land.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Martha Graham America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Carrie P. Meek America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Bill Flores America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Arlen Specter American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Hortense Calisher An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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