Stand Quotes
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
