Stood Up Quotes

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• So many girls out there say, "I'm not a feminist" because they think it means something angry or disgruntled or complaining or they picture, like, rioting and picketing. It is not that at all. It just simply means that you believe that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Believe, Mean

  "Taylor Swift Supports Emma Watson's Speech on Feminism". www.etonline.com.

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

  Hillary Clinton

  Life, Husband, Women

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'

  Quentin Crisp

  Peace, Atheist, Believe

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1984.

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• How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.8, Penguin

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• But, I don't belong to anyone...but myself.

  Sakura Tsukuba

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Men, Appreciate, Balance

  "Beyonce opens up on feminism, fame and marriage" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2014.

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Home, Feminist

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

  Ellen Page

  Powerful, People, Feminist

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• I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girlfriend, Men, Thinking

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• I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Powerful, Thinking, Views

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.

  Lena Dunham

  Jobs, Believe, Men

  "Girls’ Lena Dunham: Women saying ‘I’m not a feminist’ is my greatest pet peeve" by Jane Mulkerrins, metro.co.uk. January 14, 2013.

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• I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

  Miley Cyrus

  Want, Should, Periods

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won't have sex with me.'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  "If Harry Potter Doesn’t Believe In The Friend Zone, Neither Should You". Buzzfeed Brews Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2014.

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• Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.

  Patrick Stewart

  Profound, Promise, Allies

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• I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

  Dalai Lama

  Fighting, Rights, Feminist

  "I'm a male feminist. No, seriously" by John Brougher, www.cnn.com. October 8, 2013.

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• Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Inspiration, Rights, Males

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• People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and the truth of it was that they had no more idea who or what they were than he had. They believed their flashing signs, too. They ought to be standing up and shouting, "This isn't me! This isn't me!" They would if they had any decency. "This isn't me!" Then you might know how to proceed through the flashing bullshit of this world.

  Philip Roth

  Ideas, People, Bullshit

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• I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Stuff, Saws

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• I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

  Tom Petty

  Personality, Unjust, Problem

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• I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

  Will Ferrell

  Teacher, Math, Exercise

  "Will Ferrell says growing up in Irvine made him funny". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. July 23, 2008.

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• Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Flames, Agony, Causes

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