I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.
To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.
Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.
Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.
At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.
I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.
