Stood Up Quotes - Page 5

• I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, Russia, President

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the second 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2016.

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• I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very effectively stood up to Donald Trump who has obvious fascist tendencies and his - who's a temptation like all authoritarian figures to try to crush the media or make it obey him. As that - the media has, in fact, stood up to him and has refused to bow out or cower.

  Tim Wu

  Crush, Media, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In America, one of the biggest problems we have with China is the illegal dumping of steel and aluminum into our markets. I have fought against that as a senator. I've stood up against it as secretary of state.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Steel, Aluminum

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• [Strong marriage] starts with being married to a remarkable person. And I am. I jokingly say that I stood up in front of a crowd once and said, "Laura's the greatest first lady ever," and then realized my mother was in the audience.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Strong, Crowds

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I want the ones that stood up for the Tea Party when the Tea Party was being pilloried by the mainstream media. I like the Bachmanns and the Palins and the Wests and I like the Herman Cains, I like Thaddeus McCotter, I like fighters, and I don't like the poll-tested ones.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Party, Media, Tea

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

  Paula Broadwell

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I've ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up - motley isn't the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin.

  Bill Murray

  New York, Awards, Years

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable.

  Robert Hass

  Pounds, Kind, Deals

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.

  John Lewis

  Insanity, President, Interviews

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We've stood up for the men and women of law enforcement, directing federal agencies to ensure they are protected from crimes of violence.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Agency, Law

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• [Donald Trump] stood up and he said, you finally have a president, you finally have a president. I am the future.And what did he get? Hosannas and huzzahs and genuflection. It was a total takeover of the conservative movement.

  Mark Shields

  President, Movement, Conservative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Class, Shy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Color, White

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• [Donald Trump] stood up and was asked a very specific question, if there's an undocumented illegal in the military or wants to serve in the military, can they stay? And he said, "You know what? I think that's a good idea."That's brilliant. That's genius.

  Eric Bolling

  Military, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am also full of admiration for Chelsea Manning [formerly PFC Bradley Manning]. Regardless of which side of the argument you're on, he stood up for something he felt wasn't right. That was an extraordinarily brave thing to do, and I think he was unfairly punished for it. It's a really big deal what he did, and he did it for the betterment of all us, including the soldiers on the ground, as well as the civilians caught up in those conflicts.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Brave, Soldier

  "“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 10, 2013.

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• I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.”

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Girl, Drama, School

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• I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

  Aminatta Forna

  Household

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• I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

  Dolly Parton

  Beautiful, Grandma, Aunt

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

  Peter Drucker

  Horse, Government, Knees

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• There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

  Bill Maher

  Men, Awkward, Black

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• Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Iran, Yugoslavia

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, pp. 146-147, 1980.

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• The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.

  Jim Lampley

  Fighting, Hbo, Hands

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• Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Law, People

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.

  Mark Shields

  Men, He Man, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."

  David Brooks

  Order, Two, Ego

  Meet the Press Debate, www.nbcnews.com.

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