#straight

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #straight #life

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#just #maybe #out #play #straight

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk. ↗

— Travis Barker

#going #i #like #listened #little

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things. ↗

— Todd Barry

#being #being funny #call #characters #comedy

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#applause #being #come #different #different reasons

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#excited #going #gonna #puerto #puerto rico

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. ↗

— Xun Zi

#generous #gentleman #instruct #magnanimous #opens

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#little #little faith #proud #stand #straight

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#could #few #get #i #only

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#amendment #face #fourth #me #mind