We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress.
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it’s also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.
You know obviously my stand on racism is that it’s unacceptable and that we should always stand up to it.
If I feel like someone is unjustly being attacked, I’ll stand up for them. If I feel like someone is lying, then I’m going to call them on it.
It’s intimidating when you have to stand onstage amongst a bunch of men who are dedicated to maintaining peak musculature and athleticism, and they’re six-five, 240 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal. It’s a lot to stand up to… My goal is to not look like Chris Farley.
We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America – and the world.
I don’t like men who treat women like arm candies. He should treat me like an equal or better. And then he should be a good human being. He should see the human side of things. I like men who stand up for what’s right and who don’t cheat.
To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can’t stand up – You can tell a joke. You’re a good storyteller and a good joke teller.
What is your duty to a country? Do you follow it blindly? Or do you challenge your country to be better and stand up to the ideals that all men are created equal and everyone deserves equity, not just equality?
We must stand up to anti-Semitism at home and abroad.
What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.
I kick off every monthly team meeting with ‘core value stories’ – team members stand up and recognize how another team member exemplified a core value.
The truth is, women don’t stand up, they’re too hushed, they don’t like to say stuff.
I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won’t offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what’s happening in their culture, their community.
As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope… These things don’t fit on a comedy stage and if you act you’ll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
I think that Canadians in general very much understand… that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights.
It takes one person to stand up for what he believes in. I believe there’s been an injustice in Arizona. I oppose Bill 1070.
All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.
I’m not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as enemy combatants, I think, is unarguable, and we need to stand up for that.
We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups. The fact that this is only directed at the Muslim community is something that I personally can’t accept.
I’ve always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn’t teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
I have strong views and beliefs. And I stand up for those.
I wish that I had the guts to stand up for gay rights.
Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
I grew up being very different and being ready to fight people. I wanted to stand up for myself, and I wanted to not let anyone think they know me based on appearances, so I was always just fighting back with people.
No matter where we go in the state, I hear from Mainers that they are ready for someone to stand up for them in Washington.
I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their race or anything like that – I always felt that was a personal choice. But I do feel now that maybe my opinion is evolving or changing a little bit.
To build a great company, which is a CEO’s job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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.
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.
If our values are worth anything, we should stand up for them and live by them, both within Britain and across the world.
The moment I’m most proud of my career is when I got dropped by the headkick by Carlos Condit. I fell down and I was able to stand up.
It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States – speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while… Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.
The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I’ll just stick to reading lines off a page.
You can’t just carry everyone else’s hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
A bully is going to be a bully, and you have to stand up for yourself. You can’t expect everyone else is going to come and run to your aid. You have to stand your ground; that’s very important.
I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, ‘What do I want? What are my desires?’
The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, ‘Please do it faster.’
Britain is a nation proud to stand up for what is right and is generous in helping those in need.
Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it’s really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust.
Margaret Cho is definitely one of the people, like just watching or hearing her stand up back in the days when stand-up albums were pretty prolific. Seeing her in Carnegie Hall was pretty revolutionary for me to be like, ‘Oh, this Asian person talking about her sexuality.’
See, ‘Bad and Boujee’ was really a ladies’ record. It made all of them want to stand up a little more and feel a little better about themselves.
The West has been calling for years for the forces of moderate Islam to stand up to the very small percentage but very large number of radical Muslims all around the world. When countries – the U.A.E. or Egypt or Jordan – do that, we need to highlight it, we need to celebrate it, and we need to continue to encourage it.
Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I’d rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I’ll be excited to go back to it.
A fact is like a sack – it won’t stand up if it’s empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
We’ve got to stand up for ourselves. That is, draw some lines, make it clear that after awhile, we’re not going to get bullied or pushed around, because I think there are some in China who want to push the United States around. They want to bully us.
I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren’t taken care of.
I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
I am engaged with the news, I vote, I write to my MP, I stand up for things that are important to me.
I used to do stand-up, actually. I had a ten-minute routine I did for a thing called ‘Stand Up for Labour’ where we’d go around different seats and use comedy to raise money. I stopped doing this routine when I started running for mayor.
When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we’re looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors – can you imagine wearing those corsets?
