Standing Quotes
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These people looked Japanese, were originally Japanese, were numerous. We had no way of knowing to what extent they had been infiltrated. To their great credit, it seems not to have been very much at all. But I can understand why. And I rather respect Eleanor for standing out against the tide at that point. But it certainly was a tide. And I'm not going to say it was unjustified.
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I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
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If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.
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...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
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A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.
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We are committed not only to stand beside Pakistan at this time of tragedy, but we're committed to working with and standing with Pakistan in the long run.
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Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
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Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
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The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.
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The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank
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Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.
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Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.
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He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
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I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.
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You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.
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Untouchability is an error of long standing.
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The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
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Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.
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Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.
