Standup Quotes
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I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
Ariana Grande -
Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
Muhammad Ali
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.
Aziz Ansari -
“I can't claim that I came out of it the winner. But I felt a lot like a kid who has finally found the guts to stand up to the schoolyard bully and tell him to take his best shot: bruised and bloody and thinking maybe that it hadn't been such a hot idea, but - what do you know? - still standing.”
Aaron Elkins -
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.
Judah Friedlander
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The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.
Norm MacDonald -
Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
Aziz Ansari -
Comics, a lot of them, are really depressed people, and I happen to be somebody that does have a lot of confidence. That's the odd thing about my stand-up. I am very confident. I always was.
Andrew Dice Clay -
If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.
Celia Green -
I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.
Alex Sink
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You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.
Aaron Russo -
I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.
Craig Lancaster -
I don't care if I ever hit radio, and I don't care if I ever get any bigger than this. I just wanna stand up for artistry because that's what really matters in music
Christofer Drew -
You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.
Bill Lear -
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
Marianne Williamson -
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
Norman Vincent Peale
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A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.
Josh McDermitt -
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
Steve Buscemi -
Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.
Hillary Clinton -
For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.
Eugene Mirman