Standing Quotes
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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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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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I would rather die standing than live kneeling.
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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.
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Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?
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So far I'm still standing on 'Sons of Anarchy' but all the rest of the people on the show have me in their crosshairs so I'm waiting for the bullet in the head.
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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
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There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
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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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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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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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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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I always, always got to be the last man standing.
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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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Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.
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Want to fire up a liberal? Dare to suggest that a nervous looking young Middle Eastern man standing in a TSA line to get on an airplane should be scrutinized.
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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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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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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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.
