We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.
In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.
I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.
I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.
As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.
Isn't it time for you to stop your fears and doubts from standing in-between you and your true destiny in life?
Does it matter if the whole world is standing against you, if God is already on your side, guiding and protecting you?
Despite where you stand in life at the moment, always remember that your presence on earth matters as much as everyone else's.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.
I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
