Stood Up Quotes - Page 9

• I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.

  George Saunders

  Healing, Speech, Documentaries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  Pat Boone

  Country, Thinking, President

  FaceBook post by Pat Boone from Sep 03, 2015

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• How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

  Jacques Plante

  Jobs, Mistake, Hockey

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• Even though me and Paul Ryan disagree on a whole lot of things, when he stood up and confronted those ugly words that [Donald] Trump said, I was proud of him.

  Steve King

  Ugly, Proud, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea we would put Americans' economy in jeopardy based on scientific theory that is not settled yet to me is nonsense. Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said this is the fact... Galileo got outvoted for a spell. To put Americans' economic future in jeopardy, asking us to cut back in areas that would have monstrous economic impact on this country is not good economics and I would suggest is not necessarily good science.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Crazy, Cutting

  "The end of Michele Bachmann? 'Queen of rage' losing momentum as funds reportedly dwindle" by Thomas Durante, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 9, 2011.

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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• The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cutting, Gun, Escaping

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• May future generations look back on our work
  and say that these were men and women who,
  in a moment of great crisis,
  stood up to their politicians,
  the opinion-makers, and the establishment,
  and saved their country.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Men, Generations

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• Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, World Government, League

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• A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

  Frank Stella

  Cutting, Sculpture, Painting

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• I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

  J. D. Salinger

  God, Children, Drinking

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• Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Struggle, Mean

  "Rick Santorum: Nelson Mandela Fought ‘Great Injustice,’ Just Like Republicans Are Battling Obamacare" by Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Courage, Purpose, World

  "Are We Beacons of Democracy Only When it’s Easy?" by James Boyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2009.

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• Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said ‘I disagree’ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.’

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ideas, People, Progress

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• You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

  Tina Turner

  Yeah, Ifs

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• If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

  Winston Churchill

  Enemy, Ifs

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• When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

  Mamie Till

  Son, Men, Lynching

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• I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address, whatever you call it.

  George W. Bush

  Dad, Humor, People

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• When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

  Emilio Estevez

  People, Guy, Quality

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• Stop smiling!” she ordered. “I can see you, Carter. Oh…and, uh, hullo, Walt.” The pot monster made squeaky grinding noises as it stood up straight. One clunky arm rose and tried to fix Sadie’s nonexistent hair. Leave it to Sadie to be self-conscious around boys, even when she’s made out of pots and duct tape.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Hair, Self

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.

  Al Pacino

  Beach, Coffee, Ocean

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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