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And she stood in front of her mirror at home, and she said the word "God."
BG: So let's talk about your experience, because you stood up by writing this book.
You stood up because the book actually puts the spotlight on shamers.
Within that first week, at least one man in every single country in the world stood up to be counted, and within that same week, HeForShe created more than 1.2 billion conversations on social media.
I scurried up the ladder on the back, and when I stood up, the electrical current entered my arm, blew down and out my feet, and that was that.
Roger Bannister and the four-minute mile, it was a physical impossibility to break the four-minute mile in a foot race until Roger Bannister stood up and did it.
A pagan came to him and offered to convert to Judaism if the rabbi could recite the whole of Jewish teaching while he stood on one leg.
Hillel stood on one leg and said, "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.
Yet Poe stood out thanks to his careful attention to form and style.
And as I stood on the front porch fumbling in my pockets, I found I didn't have my keys.
There were hundreds of us, and one by one, when we got to the door, we were told, "I'm sorry, this meeting is just for men," and we had to step back and watch men get into the meeting as young as 12 years old, escorted and walked past us as we all stood in line.
And I understood when I stood up from that chair after three months, I am not the same anymore.
A male coworker was annoyed that I had been out on 'vacation,' so he intentionally opened the door on me while I was pumping breast milk and stood in the doorway with inmates in the hallway."
A hundred years ago this month, a 36-year-old Albert Einstein stood up in front of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin to present a radical new theory of space, time and gravity: the general theory of relativity.
And so she went outside and she stood there in the rain, talking to Keith Jarrett, begging him not to cancel the concert.
And he stood up twisting, pounding down on the keys, desperately trying to create enough volume to reach the people in the back row.
And one thing that stood out to us the most was the plastic garbage.
It speculated that race stood in as a proxy for some unknown genetic factor that affects heart disease or response to drugs.
One elderly black woman stood up in a community meeting and shouted, "Give me what the white people are taking!"
Along with his great ideas, Plato had a few that haven't exactly stood the test of time.
By 1990, a mere decade later, this proportion stood at 80 percent.
Infection rate stood at about two percent in my early days there.
Our medical students held die-ins in their white coats, but the medical community has largely stood by passively as ongoing discrimination continues to affect the disease profile and mortality.
I realized that my story stood in for all those who were expected to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, even if they didn't have any boots; that my organization stood in for all the structural, systemic help that never went to Harlem or Appalachia or the Lower 9th Ward; that my voice stood in for all those voices that seemed too unlearned, too unwashed, too unaccommodated.
The justice was wearing black and Sandy wrote, [Her face and hands stood out like in an old, mostly dark painting.]
But on "Everyone held their breath," he stood his ground.
It stood two-and-a-half stories at the shoulder, and all fleshed out in life, it weighed 65 tons.
I once stood at the head of the Missouri River and bestraddled it.
I stood there and I kind of went deaf.
And then I came back to my studio in New York, and I hand-glued these 250 images together and stood back and went, "Wow, this is so cool!
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