It’s really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.
We can’t live in fear. There are going to be people who will disagree with us, but it’s important for us to stand up and say what’s right and what’s wrong.
My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it’s true.
Business has to stand up on behalf of its employees, on behalf of immigration, on behalf of its customers, and on behalf of supply chain-cum-globalization.
I don’t think I’ve ever hurt anybody. I think I’ll stand up on the day of judgment and go, ‘Yeah? So what?’
For me, it was always survival. Learn where not to be at so you don’t get shot. Learn where not to walk at so you don’t get jumped. Learn who to stand up to, who not to stand up to. And then, when I got old enough to get a chip on my shoulder, I wanted to be the dog. I wanted to be the alpha.
When I served as a prosecutor, I saw firsthand the many injustices that are embedded in our communities. But I also saw the difference it can make in someone’s life when they have someone to stand up and fight for them.
There’s places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say ‘let’s just build a fence’ and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it’s going to secure the border, that’s not reality.
I quit law school in 1990 and started doing stand up in Boston.
I want to stand up for what I believe in, and I don’t think it’s right when people say things or bash people because of their sexual orientation.
I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
X Factor’ creates a Christmas single that puts money in other people’s pockets. Whereas ‘Strictly”s not out to do that, at all. That’s why I stand up for it – it isn’t car-crash television.
I don’t do ‘gamification,’ and I’m not prepared to stand up and say, ‘I think it works.’
I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, ‘When are we going to stand up on our feet?’
The people stand up from the chairs when I hit good winners. I like to do that.
I did try and do some spooky stand up once, and some of my stand-up had – I tried to do some horror stand-up, but it didn’t really work very well.
I’m not the strongest, I’m not this amazing wrestler, but I believe the skills I’ve honed over a period of time – my stand up, my takedown defence, the way I position myself on the ground – I just believe I can be the full package.
I had full rank scholarship to the University of Michigan, which anybody in the north will tell you, I don’t know anyone that has had that at the University of Michigan, which tells you that I was a stand up student.
I like all styles of MMA, my first classes in the sport were BJJ but I prefer to stand up.
I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.
We are ambassadors. We are leaders of our own brands, and then in life things are thrown at you, you have to stand up for what’s right. That brings on a whole new role. It’s not on the front of the agenda that you see, but if you read the fine print it’s part of becoming an athlete and the pedestal you get with that.
I happen to collect the weird stuff – photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.
We need to stand up and become a united front against a common enemy. It’s important for us to not be divided.
We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.
If we want to change this culture of hate and bigotry, every one of us must stand up and speak with one voice to condemn it, because an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.
Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can’t just be like, ‘Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I’m going to lean on the mike stand.’ No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they’ll find someone else.
Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.
Are we willing and able to stand up to Islamophobia on days when there are not brutal terrorist attacks on Muslims in mosques?
You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you’re doing, you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly, you have to be able to stand up in front of people and know that they’ll laugh.
She teaches me to be kind, punctual… and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren’t these things every mother should teach their daughter?
My goal is the same as it has always been – to stand up for myself and take back my voice after being bullied and intimidated by President Trump and his minions.
I want to stand up for Britain’s national interests.
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That’s why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
If you can’t be president – if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.
When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I’m not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.
I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights – anytime, anywhere, anyplace.
I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it’s 30 years later.
So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.
As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It’s really important for your livelihood and your well-being. And if you don’t do that, you’re going to fail; you’re never going to be able to stand up on the cliff and jump off.
There are only a few times in a man’s life where you have the chance to stand up for something that you believe in and make a statement.
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
How do you play ‘righteous’? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don’t really play a quality.
The federal government has shown little willingness to stand up to corporate monopolies, and use its powers under the existing antitrust statutes, including the powerful Clayton Act and Sherman Act.
Kids will always find something to pick on, whether it’s your color, your religion, the way you look, your size. You try and stand up for yourself, but it’s really difficult when you’ve got 20 or 30 girls against you.
I’ve trained with some of the best when it comes to stand up.
In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There’s something about acting like I don’t care, or if I act like I haven’t spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I’m really trying to sell it, it doesn’t go as well.
I want to stand up for free speech.
I wanted a real profession. And I’d always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what’s kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don’t.
If you can stand up for your faith when you’re on top, you can stand up for it now that you’re at the bottom.
Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
Our military personnel sacrifice for us, and we need to stand up for them.
There’s something magical about putting yourself into life. You’ve got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
I come from a blue-collar town – and being from that place, you learn not to let anybody take advantage of you. You don’t let people mistreat you. You stand up for what’s right.
Telugu cinema can really spoil you. They treat you like a queen. As soon as you get down from your van, they will all stand up, and they won’t sit till you have passed by. I love that attention and miss that.
