Stood Up Quotes - Page 7

• I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed.

  Barack Obama

  Up Early, Proud, Facts

  "Not "corrupted" by DLC, Says Obama". www.blackcommentator.com. June 19, 2003.

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• During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I can't live like this. I can't take another second of this living hell.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Acceptance, Equal Pay, Speech

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• A cigar makers organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I dont know if thats true, but once while visiting Havana, I went to a cigar factory. There were four hundred people there rolling cigars, and when they saw me, they all stood up and applauded.

  Groucho Marx

  Organization, People, World

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• Dad has always been - and still is - a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his beliefs... and I like to do the same with regard to my own true beliefs, regardless of potential criticism or mockery.

  Linus Roache

  Dad, Criticism, Spirit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Light-leaved acacias, by the door,
  Stood up in balmy air,
  Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,
  And breathed a perfume rare.

  George MacDonald

  Light, Air, Doors

  George MacDonald (1867). “The Disciple, and Other Poems”, p.81

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• Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

  Jean Kerr

  Men, Years, Two

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• I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

  Jane Fonda

  War, Vietnam, Speech

  "Jane Fonda on Men, Power and Plastic Surgery". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2007.

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• The Chinese people have stood up.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Chinese, China

  Zedong Mao “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung: The period of the socialist revolution and socialist construction (I)”

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• I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Hair, Years, Careers

  "FASHION ICON CARMEN DELL’OREFICE ON LOVE, SEX & SECRETS TO HER SUCCESS". New You Interview, www.newyou.com. February 10, 2015.

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• We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Winning, Political

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• Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

  George Foreman

  Giving, Done, Made

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• The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.

  Arthur Jensen

  Environmental, Belief, Accepted

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• I have always been a leader on my team. I have always been a guy that held player-only meetings. I'm the type of guy that stood up and said something. I know how to lead.

  La'el Collins

  Team, Player, Leader

  "La'el Collins Q&A: Cowboys Rookie on Murder Investigation and Draft Plummet". Interview with Bleacher Report, bleacherreport.com.

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• What I became a comedian for was to get my art out. To get some of these feelings and things I had on my chest out. I don't care if people believe them, listen to them, change their ways, or think, or any of that kind of crap. I'm interested in showing off. I'm the same kid from sixth grade who stood up and said "watch this."

  George Carlin

  Art, Believe, Kids

  Source: www.cnn.com

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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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• 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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• [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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