Standing Quotes
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People always ask me what the trends are, but Im not a believer in trends. Individuality is more important to me, to stand out and have the confidence to wear something youre comfortable in - it just happens Im comfortable wearing a suit!
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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
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If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.
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It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.
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Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.
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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.
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I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.
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Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.
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Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.
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Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
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Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.
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I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.
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I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.
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A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.
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There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
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In Hong Kong, in our generation that started out in the 1970s, being a director wasn't a big deal. We didn't even have director's chairs. We weren't particularly well paid. The social standing of a film director wasn't that high. It was a sort of a plebeian job, a second or third grade one. And the studio heads are always practical, there's never any fawning because someone is a director. There's very little snobbery about one's position as a director. The only ones people treated differently were those that were also stars; or the directors who also owned their companies.
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You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.
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Sometimes you have to bend a little in order to keep standing.
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If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
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One of the greatest gifts we’ve been given out of this administrative nightmare is that marginalized communities are coming together and standing up for each other.
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Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.
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I'm standing for real freedom.
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By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.
