Stand up Quotes · Page 9

Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy.

— Christopher Monckton

“A setback is often a prerequisite to your success; not a life sentence.”

— Naide P Obiang

Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.

— Jen Kirkman

“You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

— Henry Cloud

I'm just trying to avoid any future surgery. I'm just trying to stand up straighter. And the hip and back are better.

— Jim Irsay

“To become a better you, look nowhere else for another alarm to blow before you wake up. Get up and rise up.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.

— Tom Bateman

When it comes to my health, I would rather my doctor base her decisions on science rather than what she, or some…

— Richard Thaler

I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on…

— Ed Koch

As adults, we have a legal and moral obligation to stand up and speak out for children who are being abused -…

— Beau Biden

It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really…

— Rachel Griffiths

Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is…

— Joe Rogan

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep…

— Robert Klein

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…

— David Hogg

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but…

— Steve Buscemi

I went to stand-up when my rock n' roll dreams weren't coming true. I knew it wasn't going to happen when I…

— Greg Behrendt

Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it.…

— Wesley Morris

I'm white. I have privileges as a parent that many others don't. Of not only teaching but expecting my daughter to stand…

— Stephanie Land

My beloved brethren, why do you not rise together with me against the malignants? Why do you not stand up with me…

— Thomas Becket

“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends…

— Kamand Kojouri

I had bedbugs in 2005. I felt like a leper. Worse than a leper. At least lepers had a colony they could…

— Chris Gethard

I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that…

— Imogen Poots

I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this…

— Brendan Coyle

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

— Rebecca Eaton

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

— Tracy Morgan

Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever?

— Steven Michael Quezada

We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.

— Morgan Ortagus

To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good…

— Don Rickles

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

— Carly Fiorina

I tend to stand up and speak up when I see something dysfunctional happening.

— Gina Miller

Men gotta stand up, bro. We have to man up. We gotta stop being liberals.

— Mike Perry

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

— Ziggy Marley

We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.

— Gavin Newsom

If you can stand up for your faith when you're on top, you can stand up for it now that you're at…

— Kurt Warner

I hope my work inspires people to speak and to stand up together to make change. Big or small, it doesn't matter.

— Choi Si-won

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal…

— Brigitte Bardot

I am engaged with the news, I vote, I write to my MP, I stand up for things that are important to…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

— Tracy Morgan

“In the land of the living, it is only the dead who is permitted to give excuses.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson