#stand

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#bills #choices #cops #family #get

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#also #begun #communities #corporations #discharge

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#am #backpack #bed #being #bus

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped. ↗

— Paul Rodriguez

#get #harming #never #people #protect

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#comic #guys #had #i #into

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#expect #how #man #understand #warm

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#acting #actor #director #directors #enough

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#boy #different #distinction #failing #little

Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#happening #i #now #particularly #retention

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#audience #believe #breathe #chance #costume