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I spoke at Dartmouth once, and a woman stood up after I spoke, I write in my book, and she said to me, "Professor, you've convinced me this is hopeless.
And I stood there in front of 200 of the most depressed people I've ever talked to.
A soldier came up to me and stood, you know really, pretty close, a foot away from me.
A young Cambridge scholar named William Whewell stood up and quieted the audience.
Ordinary people stood and listened to that for two hours.
We were excited by these results, but then Jim stood up, and what occurred was truly remarkable.
So why was it that, just a few nights later, as I stood in that same E.R. and determined that my diabetic patient did indeed need an amputation, why did I hold her in such bitter contempt?
He spent millions of dollars creating a bizarre personality cult, and his crowning glory was the building of a 40-foot-high gold-plated statue of himself which stood proudly in the capital's central square and rotated to follow the sun.
And these 20 old men who I'd seen before all of a sudden stood up in these full warrior costumes with the headdress and the spears, and no one was in the square, and I was hidden in the shadows.
When I was let in, it appeared that this fifth-floor apartment was being transformed into a complete animal farm, where six or seven cows stood grazing in what otherwise would be the living room.
Even in the rain, people stood between Madison and 5th Avenue under their umbrellas charging their cell phones from outlets on the street.
And so, on New Year's Eve of 2007, I went to the zoo, and I stood in front of the elephants, and I said, "This city is going on a diet, and we're going to lose a million pounds."
At the end of the meeting, the chairman of the department, he stood up.
But I think that magic will be with us, and the important thing is that we carry what he stood for.
One of the happiest moments I had in this whole journey is, after the book came out, I stood on a stage with John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco.
He stood on a stage with me, he invited me in front of his whole management team, men and women, and he said, I thought we were good at this.
Malala started her campaign for education and stood for her rights in 2007, and when her efforts were honored in 2011, and she was given the national youth peace prize, and she became a very famous, very popular young girl of her country.
At the age of 10, Malala stood, and she stood for the right of education.
You stood for the right cause.
I'm here at this stage because it's a long history of people who fought and stood up for injustice.
I stood and watched as the coach drove up these women in this gray van, and they exited with this kind of relaxed focus.
I stood behind one archer as her coach stood in between us to maybe assess who might need support, and watched her, and I didn't understand how even one was going to hit the ten ring.
When he saw me, he immediately traversed that pedestrian rail, and stood on that small pipe which goes around the tower.
And yet, if you look at your work, could it be argued that your best work wasn't about you at all, it was about somebody else? Did your best work occur when you sidestepped your own ego and you stopped telling your story, but told someone else's story, someone perhaps without a voice, where empathetically, you stood in his shoes for a while or saw the world through his eyes?
KSM: I used to not have the same rights as you, but I know that because a black man like yourself stood up for a woman like me, I know that I've got the same opportunities.
For example, we had an exercise where we all stood in a circle, and each person had to do the world's worst tap dance, and everybody else applauded and cheered you on, supporting you onstage.
For 19 years, my father stood by my side with an unshakable faith, because he believed that I had what it took to turn my life around.
My father gave my brother and me small luggages to carry, and we walked out and stood on the driveway waiting for our mother to come out, and when my mother finally came out, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down both her cheeks.
It was a ridiculous thing to do, really, but I couldn't think of anything else, and so there I stood.
The first time I stood in the operating room and watched a real surgery, I had no idea what to expect.
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