It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
Giving up doesn't define you, but how you stand in every choice and fight in every decision you've made reflects your character.
As your president, I care too much about this nation to let anyone stand in the way of our people's wellbeing.
The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton
We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.
I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.
Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
Standing around the grill is fine, but I like to have my friends come in and out of the house. Movement makes the party more exciting.
People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.
Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.
Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
