We can’t afford to compromise on anything we have fought for – abortion is legal in our country, and I will do everything in my power to stand up for the rights of women and all people to choose when and how they build a family.
The person I’ve worked with most is Morena Baccarin, and from her, I’ve learned to stand up for your character.
I had purpose in my heart that I would stand up for the truth regardless of what I might lose in life.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run.
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
Football is quite easy when you’re doing well and winning games. It’s when things aren’t so good and they get tough, that’s when the character and attitude stand up.
We believe – we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.
I believe Ted Cruz is the right candidate for the right time in our country’s history. A proven leader and a consistent conservative who will fight the Washington cartel and stand up for the American people.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Professional athletes have an enormous opportunity to be a source of inspiration for the younger generation, lead by example, and prove to them that as long as you stand up for what you believe in, everything is possible.
He slides into second with a stand up double.
There are a lot of people out there who will try to take advantage of you or are predators in a certain way. Women must stand up and speak out about it. Also, anybody who says that they have been wronged should be supported in every possible manner.
As a co-founder of the Defend Social Security Caucus in the Senate, you can count on me to continue to stand up for our seniors and fight any back door efforts to cut benefits.
We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that’s the way we can eradicate it.
The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on – which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC’s authority.
You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
I remember being glued to the TV as I watched the Olympics as a kid. There was something so magical, almost otherworldly, about the Olympics. My favorite part was that moment right before it all started. The moment where the athlete would stand up ready to face whatever lay ahead.
My daughter has studied in London and when she came back, she wanted to be a stand up comedian.
I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.
I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you’re worth – rather than what your employer is paying you.
In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was not working for the military or for a defense contractor, and I must have seemed too young and too naive to stand up for the truth.
For me, the issue is if I’m your advocate, if I’m your representative, my job is to stand up for you and talk about you and defend you.
There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.
It’s a midterm year, and it’s time to take action. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat. I don’t care if you’re a Republican. Stand up for what you believe in.
I think I have got a lot better as an interviewer. I let people talk now which is something you need to do. At the beginning I thought jokes, jokes, jokes, I am a stand up comedian but I think I have mellowed out now.
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
You don’t have to be a brilliant historian to know that in Europe, messing with countries’ borders, messing with their self-determination, their ability to choose their own futures, this is extremely dangerous, and that’s why I think it is important to stand up to Putin.
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
I’m going to stand up for the good name of Mississippi, just like I did for Mike Espy’s good name.
I’m not going to freeze under the pressure. I’m hoping I can stand up to it.
I come from a long line of very strong, tough women. We stick to our principles and stand up for what we believe in, which is fundamental fairness, which is my raison d’etre.
I stand up for the things I believe in.
She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It’s like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?
The fact is that Hillary Clinton could not stand up to a cheating husband, so how in the world would she stand up to North Korea and some of our other enemies around the globe?
When you are doing stand up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X-Men version of yourself, with lasers coming out of your eyes.
I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there’s that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.
There are consequences if you stand up for what you believe. Heck, you might – you might lose your sponsors if you’re a talk show host; or if you’re running for office, you know, people not give to you or people might not vote for you.
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn’t easy either, and for someone who’s quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.
My point is simply this: I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.
I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don’t mind if they are lying.
Stand up for what you know is right.
You have to stand up super-straight in those corsets and pull your shoulders back.
When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
There’s so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren’t really maximizing the freedom of it.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say ‘Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.’
It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they’ve made their peace with death.
I am President of Coeliac UK, and apart from supporting Stand Up to Cancer, I want to raise awareness about coeliac disease. It’s an autoimmune disease – people often think it’s an allergy – and it can affect you very seriously.
Let’s stand up. Let’s speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you’re more willing to stand up and be counted.
