“I learned I had to stand for something so I could stand to be me.”
Martin Sheen (1940) American actor
2000s, Progressive magazine interview (2003)
David Webb Show http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/05/ohio-male-rnc-member-calls-carly-fiorina-hot-babe/ (5 August 2015). <br class="br">2010s, 2015, David Webb Show (August 2015)
“I learned I had to stand for something so I could stand to be me.”
Martin Sheen (1940) American actor
2000s, Progressive magazine interview (2003)
Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist
Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
“If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.”
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) American photographer and author
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Nora Helmer, Act III
A Doll's House (1879)
Context: If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
TotalBiscuit (1984–2018) British game commentator
WTF Is…? series, Day One: Garry's Incident (October 1, 2013)