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“Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.”

Knows Nations Teacher Standing Silver Bullets Rehabilitation Silver Bullets

“Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.”

Law Individual Liberty Standing Property Enjoyment Protected

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards

“So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.”

Values Principles Democracy Standing Including Dissent Speaking Out Speaking Up

Author:Jim Hightower

“It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.”

Ifs Enough Character Wonderful Standing Notes Singers Connecting No Point Standing There Portraying

Author:Bruce Beresford

“Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.”

Has Beens Effort Audience Feet Beats Standing Jumping Parking Parking Lot Ovation

Author:Earl Wilson

“In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.”

Character Military Arms Standing Army Soldier Militia Laborers

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.”

Way Art Ends Artist Natural Enemy Standing Odds Disguise Multitudes Natural Enemies

Book:Robert Altman: Interviews

Source: Robert Altman: Interviews

“I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.”

Way Giving Trying Done Artist Belief Growth Support Walking Integrity Standing Threat Granted Contribution Scope Tactics Exploits Better Ways

Author:Lauryn Hill

“This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.”

Kind Lasts Careers Creating Standing Plenty Exception Gray Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:Robert Reed

“I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.”

Self Motivational Shadow Standing Former Champion

Author:Adam Johnson

“Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next. Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you've taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!”

Might Motivational Able Young Next Taken Ready Offers Standing Blind Corners Shoulders Dust This Life Champion Thrown Tall Strongest Be Young Your Strong Standing Tall

Author:Adam Johnson

“I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.”

Feels Seems Sea Standing Ships Up And Down Spinning Pitching Deck Vertigo High Seas

Author:Laura Hillenbrand

“When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"”

Believe Wells Real Acting Baby Arms Standing Ears Grey Wigs Standing There

Author:Jim Sturgess

“It's not hard to be sexy when you're standing in front of Angelina Jolie or Robin Wright Penn. They're two of the most beautiful women in the world and two of the finest actresses. I think that if you're with people who are good in your profession they become sexy because they're good at what they do. I enjoyed being 6ft 6ins, having an eight pack and a long todger, you know? If I fold mine in half it's the same length!”

“It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.”

Thinking Way Firsts Long Stories Would Be Wanted Perfect Cutting Happened Standing Aliens France Long Way Very Romantic Long Story

Author:Ridley Scott

“If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Persons Stills Important Use Mouths Standing Tricks First Person Tick Trajectory Standing Still

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.”

Use Violence Subjects Standing Fingers Soapbox Violence In Movies

Author:Naomi Watts

“Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.”

Ifs Way Children Stills Self Mother Felt Interest Sleep Inspiring Standing Mothers Day Self Interest Standing Still

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.”

Ifs Matter Dying Walking Standing No Matter What What If

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.”

People Feels Kind Eye Fun Liberty Seeing Like You Behavior Standing Cameras Add Standing There Immediacy Whipping

Author:Paul Feig

“I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.”

People Littles Remember Saws Drug Rain Standing Corners I Realized Buying Apartment Traffic Rainy Rainy Day Stoops

Author:Ai Weiwei

“There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?”

“I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.”

People Way Writing Art Facts Care Rooms Style Wall Walking Standing Don't Care I Don't Care Phrases Works Of Art I Care Linked Concise Writing Style

Author:Sophie Calle

“I think a lot of people get intimidated by the language of music, but everyone owns music. I think there's nothing standing in between a composer and her audience. I think a lot of people feel that way because they feel it's rarefied, but it's really not. You should feel the impact of it without being able to name it because it's ultimately a primal thing.”

People Thinking Way Feels Should Able Names Language Audience Standing Impact Composer Intimidated Primal

Author:Jeanine Tesori

“What we all have to admit to is that one man cannot save us. Unless we start energizing ourselves, all standing behind him with all of the force of our collective power then we can't expect mountains to be moved. And that is not exactly happening, we are a very comfortable population.”

Men Force Behinds Mountain Comfortable Happenings Standing Moved Population Collectives One Man Energizing

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since.”

People Felt Building Involved Standing Sorry Investing Boring Sidelines Building Something

Author:Tony Hsieh

“Every weekend the drama department would have parties. The 20 hot girls on campus? All of them were in the drama dept. So we'd have somebody standing guard at the door to keep all the computer science guys out. We had to guard our women at all times.”

Guy Girl Party Doors Drama Computer Standing Hot All Time Department Weekend Campus Computer Science Hot Girl

Author:Joe Manganiello

“It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!”

“I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Mean Actors Lines Scene Directors Shots Standing Rhythm Nuance Standing There

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.”

Doe Eye Artist Force Vision Tree Position Standing Flow Roots Depth Currents Humble Command His Eyes Crowns Overwhelmed Transmit Trunks Sap

Author:Paul Klee

“'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.”

Way Facts Culture Social Term Class Groups Standing Tied Redneck Tied Up Wasps

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed. Being self-righteous, one is not respected. Boasting of self, one's merit is unrecognized. Glorifying of self, one loses the opportunity for greatness. From the viewpoint of Tao These represent imperfect Te, Valued as are filth or disease.”

Self Opportunity Loses Walks Greatness Disease Standing Deeds Merit Imperfect Righteous Toes Tao Boast Viewpoints Stride Self Righteous Filth Flaunting

Author:Laozi

“That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.”

People Purpose Principles Havens Standing Knocked Down

Book:Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.”

Made Government Standing Nervous Lighting Torches Atlanta

Author:Muhammad Ali

“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.”

“A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree.”

Humans Different Tree Sea Rocks Garden Standing Plant Cells Migration Articulation Seaweed

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and causes of bygone generations he can lift up the fallen and beat down the proud, and by his exposures and his verdicts, his satire and his moral indignation, can punish unrighteousness, avenge the injured or reward the innocent.”

“Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.”

World America Enemy Information Standing Defeat Torture

Author:Barack Obama

“Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.”

Tree Standing Grass Judicial

Author:William O. Douglas

“Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.”

Dying Standing Rivers Knees Thirst

Author:Kathy Mattea

“I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.”

Ifs Middle Fronts Standing Train Metaphor Track

Author:Serena Williams

“Standing between these two guys you'd have to be me to know how I'm feelin'!”

Knows Two Guy Know How Standing Two Guys

Author:Buddy Guy

“I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.”

Sports Records Events Listening Sitting Standing Crowds Concerts Sporting Events

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.”

World War Reality Age America Young Church Talking Adults Standing Affair Hearing Young Age Going To Church World Affairs

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want, and make the film. That's why I've always felt the only thing standing between me and greatness, is me. There's no excuse for me not to be great except that I'm not.”

People Want Writing Film Felt Greatness Standing Scripts Casts Excuse No Excuses

Author:Woody Allen

“When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.”

Thinking Want Written Standing Winner Juggernaut

Author:Daniel Handler

“The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.”

Men Giving Social Pleasure Boys Growing Seeing Standing Everyday Clubs Managers Joining Youngsters

Author:Jock Stein

“It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.”

Firsts Earth Standing Edges Cliffs Making Up Standing On The Edge

Author:Peter Carey

“All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and if you don't want to be there, it is going to show. Nothing you dreamed about is going to happen if you forget why you started in the first place. You have to skate with you heart. Before anyone can believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.”

Ifs Want Firsts Believe Heart Shows Happens Hours Forget Standing Believe In Yourself Believe In You Skates Skater Ovation

Author:Kurt Browning

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