Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business. – Alex Berenson
What’s profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, ‘I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.’ – Chelsea Clinton
Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice – or of an architect who didn’t bother to find out why buildings stand up? – Anne Stevenson
What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people. – Bernie Sanders
I was so shy, I couldn’t stand up in front of people and speak. Now I’m in the next big three Bollywood movies. – Amy Jackson
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. – Bill Burr
I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him. – Alan Dershowitz
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I’m writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. – Andrew Pyper
Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on. – Bernie Sanders
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does. – Bill Moyers
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge. – Ben Nelson
When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that’s when I love to wear clothes. – Bonnie Wright
I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them. – Antonio Davis
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. – Barry Watson
I think it’s really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it. – Christina Aguilera
For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume… to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural. – Andrea Bocelli
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? – Brenda Blethyn
I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you’re going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life. – Blake Shelton
I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to ‘Talk Soup,’ where I was writing and performing for TV. – Aisha Tyler
I hope that people will see that we don’t have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative. – Gary Johnson
I’ve seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that’s obviously less interesting because there’s less going on. I’m just being totally frank with you. – Dylan Moran
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang. – Etta James
The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was – it really is, I have a career despite myself. – Ellen DeGeneres
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano’s is the most ungainly rock’ n’ roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. – Elton John