#stood

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact. ↗

— Janis Ian

#ago #asking #back #because #child

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#before #believed #blair #bush #claimed

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#classified #except #explained #language #light

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#different #different way #i #schizophrenic #seeing

Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more. ↗

— Christopher Judge

#come #come and go #die #go #john

It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me. ↗

— Karen Kain

#appreciate #been #before #career #contributions

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#i #jack #jack kennedy #kennedy #man

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#communism #did #future #i #than

I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama! ↗

— Nancy Keenan

#asking #barack #barack obama #bucket #conversation

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ↗

— Helen Keller

#lessons #life is a #lived #must #succession