It’s absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them. – Sidney Blumenthal
I can stand up for what I believe in. I don’t take the word ‘rebel’ in a negative connotation. – Tiger Shroff
If I can stand up when I’m 80, I’ll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel like my skills are fading, I just won’t do it publicly. – Tony Hawk
I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard. – Simon Baker
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in. – Tabatha Coffey
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights. – Ziggy Marley
A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up. – Suzi Quatro
I’ve decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it. – William Odom
I wish more people would take a stand and stand up for the principles on which this country was founded. – Virgil Goode
I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn’t popular in Congress. – Sam Graves
Personally, I don’t have a Twitter account. I like to be in control of the way the stand up of Stewart Lee is perceived, I don’t want to have to engage with individual people. Also, when I do look at it, loads of factually inaccurate things about me are written. – Stewart Lee
I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn’t my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. – Steve Lacy
People are not impressed by watching interviewees cry. People recognize chat shows with personalities as the trivial things that they are. They’re not designed to be deep. Quite frankly, people in show business don’t stand up to in-depth scrutiny. – Terry Wogan
‘Polisse’ is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I’ve never wanted to do for any such thriller. – Wesley Morris
I see something different in Hillary Clinton. She wants a trade prosecutor. She’s going after currency. She’s going stand up strong on keeping China designated as a non-market economy. – Sherrod Brown
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right’s utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word ‘freedom’ that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all. – Thomas Frank
People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don’t. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks. – Teller
My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show – the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy. – Steve Wilkos
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. – Tom Douglas
I’m an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I’m also associated with St. Jude’s. – Sofia Vassilieva
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means. – Tom Coburn
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. – Vikram Seth
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves. – Zainab Salbi
Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That’s why they call it the ‘Fists of Fury.’ Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I’m not mad at anybody. I’m not mad at any human being because I’m a human being. – Tracy Morgan
It’s very important that you tell someone when you are being bullied – someone that you trust. You should never be quiet when you are being bullied or when you see someone being bullied. It’s so important to stand up and say something. – Stephanie McMahon
I’m really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight – now I wish I hadn’t been quite so dumb! – Sarah Parish