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Stood Up Quotes (page 2)

It was a story to tell myself, a promise. Saying out loud, "You're never going to touch me again" - that was a piece of magic, magic in the belly, the domed kingdom of sex, the terror place inside where rage and power live. Whiskey rush without whiskey, bravado and determination, this place where for the first time I knew no confusion, only outrage and pride. In the worst moments of my life, I have told myself that story, the story about a girl who stood up to a monster. Doing that, I... Dorothy Allison
Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said."Then I'll carry you."Is that what love is?"I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject. Tom Robbins
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs. Ambrose Bierce
You know, sometimes you can be real scary. I don't what you were thinking back there when you took those shoes off, but all hair stood up on the back of my next."I had airport rage." Fuckin' A," Lula said. Janet Evanovich
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. George Grosz
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. Clifford Geertz
George Foreman quote: "Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground...."
Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since. George Foreman
When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy. Emilio Estevez
I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right. Natalie Portman
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. Larry David
Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked? Jacques Plante
Frank Stella quote: "A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. Frank Stella
Harold Pinter quote: "The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find..."
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word. Harold Pinter
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality. Tom Petty
When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it. Susana Martinez

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