Quotes with standing

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  • Adam Savage I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Burgess Owens I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Betty Grable I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Lorrie Moore I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Bill Allred I saw a picture of Lou Reed and David Bowie standing together and it looked like an AD for jerky.
    Radio From Hell (December 4, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Burt Bacharach I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Anne Tyler I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Jonathan Katz I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.
    Jonathan Katz
    American actor (1946 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Sterling If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Sir Isaac Newton If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
    Letter to Robert Hooke, 15 febr. 1676
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Ben Nicholas If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
    Ben Nicholas
    Australian actor
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  • Cate Campbell Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can't complain about it. When you're standing up there on the blocks, it doesn't really matter: it's all about the next minute.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Bernard Bailyn It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Ben Zobrist It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.
    Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
    Japanese actor and film producer (1950 - )
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