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#1. According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.

Jincy Willett

#2. At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

Ethel Merman

#3. Stand up for those who can't yet. Give them support and strength.

Demi Lovato

#4. I was raised to stand up for myself, if I feel I'm in the right. Maybe it would have been best if I'd just gone home with my swollen cheek.

Shannen Doherty

#5. I suspect people are suckers for a prick. I suspect folks just naturally go belly-up for a snob. Folks figure if a guy acts like he's King Tut and everybody else is donkey shit, he must be an aristocrat.

Katherine Dunn

#6. As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.

Francois Fenelon

#7. After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.

Steven Herrick

#8. When we stand up for what we believe in - for what's right - there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#9. The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.

Helmut Schmidt

#10. The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our ability to engagement with it.

Alva Noe

#11. I decided on classing it up for the party ... If Charlie doesn't dig my get up, I'll expose her for what she is: asexual.

Victoria Scott

#12. She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.

Clare Boylan

#13. I will walk my sweet little cousin out," Chris announced. He came up behind me to tug on my hair and laughed when I smacked his hand away. "Just trying to make up for all the years I missed out on." "Before

Karen Lynch

#14. The local fisherfolk were tying up for the night and crying the day's catch, but

George R R Martin

#15. Eighty percent of showing up for life is ninety percent exaggerated.

Brian Spellman

#16. I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Barry Diller

#17. At fancy and expensive restaurants (say, $50 and up for a dinner), you can follow a simple procedure to choose the best meal. Look at the menu and ask yourself: 'Which of these items do I least want to order?' Or: 'Which one sounds the least appetizing?' Then order that item.

Tyler Cowen

#18. I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

Dolly Parton

#19. When you do voiceover it's such a fun job to be able to do. First of all, you can do it in your pajamas and you don't have to get dressed up for it.

Kelly Hu

#20. My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true.

Guy Kawasaki

#21. Showing up for another says, "I see you. Your pain is known, and though I cannot make it better, I'm here and that's what matters.

Kara Tippetts

#22. Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

Steven Pressfield

#23. It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.

Catherine Jane Fisher

#24. An innovative mind allows "the creative flow" to open up for information abundance.

Pearl Zhu

#25. Dreamers are to be classified as weapons.
Ronan already knew he was a weapon ; but he was trying to make up for it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

Barry White

#27. If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. 'If you ain't scared of standing up for what's right, you ain't standing up for much.

Kenneth Logan

#28. One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy
implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a "tragedy of the commons" is created.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#29. Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

Tasha Alexander

#30. The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.

Robert Englund

#31. I build my life so that I don't wake up for anything. Ever. If you make me get up early to do something with you, I will hate you and resent you and figure out a way of never having to work with you ever again.

Douglas Coupland

#32. Her name is Feather. Feather is apparently very famous for choreographing several hit Broadway shows. She also must be pretty hard up for cash if she'd agree to choreograph a snoozer like Braid! But whatever.

Meg Cabot

#33. I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids.

Ray Combs

#34. Sometimes, it's worth living the dreams, tasks, hopes or ambitions of the people you love, however unjustifiable or stupid they may sound. Sometimes, it's worth completing what they stood up for. That is the best gift you can give to the people you love.

Sapan Saxena

#35. Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

Michael Ian Black

#36. Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

Ja Rule

#37. I've done things I'm not proud of and I'm trying really hard to make up for those things by being a decent guy. And decent guys don't act the way I've been acting around you, so I'm going to stop.

Sabrina Sol

#38. I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that.

Bill Kreutzmann

#39. There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#40. I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

Julie Delpy

#41. I think some men are born with big egos, to make up for the lack of certain neessary equipment. Like a brain.

Rachel Vincent

#42. I saw so many kids who were bullied. I always wanted to stand up for them, but I couldn't - I was a coward. So when I got old enough, I said I'm not going to be a coward anymore.

Gerard Way

#43. It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.

Lily Collins

#44. If everybody in the world got together and put their troubles up for sale on the table, you'd grab your troubles back and run away.

Nancy Ring

#45. One of the big parts of my decision-making process is knowing that when you're signing up for something, you're signing up for multiple seasons, should it be successful, and in theory, you want it to be successful, but you also want to be doing something that you're enjoying.

Tom Ellis

#46. I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

Kevin Spacey

#47. For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#48. For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can.

William Moseley

#49. It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

Anjelica Huston

#50. We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

Jeremy Corbyn

#51. If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them
and it won't be you; you can't afford them.

Juan Cole

#52. And then I save up for a ring and ask you to marry me. And then, if everything goes the way I want, you agree. And then whatever you want. As long as you're with me, I know things will be alright

Liz Reinhardt

#53. Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.

George Muller

#54. The cause isn't worth getting up for, but it is worth sleeping for. Just trying to do my part to help humanity.

Jarod Kintz

#55. The house in Chappaqua is up for sale, ... and you can get it for a bargain on Wednesday.

Rudy Giuliani

#56. I'm tired of her diving deep into nothing and leaving me on the surface. Waiting for her to come back up for air.

Julie Cantrell

#57. You made one mistake and you shouldn't beat yourself up for it for the rest of your life.

Brenna Aubrey

#58. I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.

Caity Lotz

#59. I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

Eminem

#60. There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

Kin Hubbard

#61. Because you're well and truly in the closet at the back of the warehouse with the door shut, packaged up for some secure shipping container to shunt you out to the back of beyond...it's hypocritical. You're so far in the closet Narnia's your holiday home.

Kiki Archer

#62. Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.

Kate Winslet

#63. Who've you set up for me tonight?"
"Set up," Myra repeated, wrinkling her nose. "What an unromantic phrase."
"Sorry.How about-who are you planning to loose Cupid's arrow on?"
"It's still unromantic when you're smirking.

Nora Roberts

#64. I'm always up for going back to the stage.

Taye Diggs

#65. While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.

J.D. Salinger

#66. You need somebody to stand up for you. You're the little guy, you just don't realize it yet. The Commonwealth has all the aces, and you don't even know you're playing cards.

Lisa Scottoline

#67. I don't ever forget things when it comes to you, Rebecca." A dark emotion flashed in his eyes. "I can't make up for the years I didn't show, nor will I try because you can never make up for lost time, but you have to know how important you are to me." -Hunter Beckman

Nikki Lynn Barrett

#68. My eyes lingered on her naked body for several minutes. Was our relationship what she wanted? Was it satisfying for her? Was it what she dreamed of when she started falling in love with me? Did reality ever fulfill our dreams? Or do dreams just continually set us up for failure and disappointment?

T.B. Markinson

#69. Look at Thomas Jefferson. The guy had illegitimate kids in the 1700s, and they caught him last year. If you cheat on your wife and cover it up for 200 years, you're pretty much thinking you're home free.

Greg Giraldo

#70. My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

Robbie Robertson

#71. You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.

Taissa Farmiga

#72. She came up for air, ready to apologize, when strong arms lifted her from the water and firm lips captured hers. She knew, even without looking, that it was Sam. And she put everything she had into the kiss. If she only had one shot, she'd make it her best.

Tori Scott

#73. Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

Avan Jogia

#74. Your breakdown is just a divine set-up for your breakout, which leads to an irrevocable breakthrough.

Hope D. Blackwell

#75. If so, I'll just hold the umbrella up for you forever.

Liu Cixin

#76. How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?

Gary Smalley

#77. It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.

Ezra Taft Benson

#78. To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.

Tom Rob Smith

#79. So much about life was disappointment. He often wondered how humankind endured so long, and if the few moments when things went right really made up for all the rest.

Brandon Sanderson

#80. I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

Will Estes

#81. How much longer do you think you'll be able to keep doing this?"
"Keep doing what?"
"Chatting someone up for a week, fucking her, and moving on the the next. How much longer?"
"Until my dick stops working.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#82. I'm a complete addict of The 'X Factor,' so I can see why everyone gets so inspired. But there's a downside to celebrity: your life is up for grabs, your career is much more disposable, and you are therefore vulnerable. It's a high price to pay.

Diana Quick

#83. I stand up for the things I believe in.

Todd Akin

#84. Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone.

Suzy Kassem

#85. Time is up for my little caravan kingdom. It's time for a window that does not look into concrete.

Leanne Hall

#86. The media has dubbed me as someone who can only get up for the big tournaments, and that is not who I want to be.

Sloane Stephens

#87. Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.

Olof Arnalds

#88. STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

Douglas Coupland

#89. When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

Dorothy Day

#90. I've been at stand-up for years: after a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

Emo Philips

#91. There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

R. Lee Ermey

#92. I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

Rick Warren

#93. My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

Santiago Cabrera

#94. Siblings. Always exaggerating, always teasing. Can't live without them, can't put them up for sale on eBay.

Jo Raven

#95. the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the books Vernon had brought, a thriller called utopia.

Douglas Preston

#96. The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Havelock Ellis

#97. The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.

Michael Ashcroft

#98. To love Christ more, is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul
Out in the woods and on my bed and out driving,
when I am happy and busy,
and when I am sad and idle,
the whisper keeps going up for
more love, more love, more love!

Elizabeth Prentiss

#99. If you do nothing but urge people to "look out for number one," you will be setting them up for future failure in any relationship, especially marriage.

Timothy Keller

#100. If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.

Jesse Ventura