Position Quotes - Page 10

• We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn't bother us.

  Howard Zinn

  United States, World, Want

  "Interview with Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States". Interview with Sean Carswell and Todd Taylor, razorcake.org. December 6, 2011.

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• I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

  John Green

  Religious, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• I'd like to think that we've certainly strengthened the position of some of our government businesses.

  Peter Gutwein

  Thinking, Government

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• We grow our own source revenue base, we put ourselves into a stronger financial position and so this budget is unashamedly going to be about focusing on ensuring that we continue to grow our economy and create jobs.

  Peter Gutwein

  Jobs, Stronger, Financial

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• It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Our Love, Wheels, Dignity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

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• India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Numbers, Age, Becoming

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Kids, Moon, Opportunity

  "Buzz Aldrin's mission to Mars". Interview with Jeremy Wilks, www.euronews.com. February 7, 2013.

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• If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Thinking, People

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.

  Bill Richardson

  Giving, Immigration, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed at men they came in contact with, because it had been pent up too long - women now come from a new position of easier, more comfortable self-affirmation and empowerment. Women are given to tolerance and are more able to love. I hope it happens also to men.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Law, Self

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• I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who are all about change-people who are supposed to be intellectually and culturally drawn to the idea of change and how the voice of a creative person affects the world on a bigger scale than just the canvas-I would expect a person in that position to have that open mind. It's only a sign of age that they become so locked in their own rules that they forget that this is what it's all about.

  Marc Jacobs

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline, and that is not a position that conservation biologists want to be in.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  People, Want, Fields

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• I wish that there was a unified Democratic position on the war in Iraq. I was that there was a unified American position and everybody agreed with me that we ought to be out of there yesterday. But they don't, and that's the fact. I mean, he's stating a fact about what's going on.

  Howard Dean

  War, Mean, Iraq

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.

  Oliver Kahn

  Play, People, Done

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into you every which way that you've got to get married and you've got to have babies. That you're not a natural woman if you don't. So that led to a lot of sitting by the telephone and waiting for a call. And that led you into a culture in which you were always in a subordinate position without realizing it; hamstrung, not able to take action. That was the most important thing: you were always waiting to be desired.

  Vivian Gornick

  Baby, Romantic Love, Waiting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Religious, Data, Way

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

  Reid Hoffman

  Smart, Thinking, Play

  "How To Be A Great Founder". Lecture by Reid Hoffman, genius.com. November 4, 2014.

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• A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

  Dacia Maraini

  Political, Firsts, Telling The Truth

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck with their own positions that never change.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  People, Transformation, Environment

  Source: evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com

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• I'd work on my game online and at casinos, build my bankroll, find good games, and try to put myself in a position to keep winning and earn a steady income.

  Phil Ivey

  Winning, Games, Trying

  Source: cardplayerlifestyle.com

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• I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.

  Angela Davis

  Attitude, Struggle, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.

  Rafael van der Vaart

  Play, Makers, Difficult

  The Soccer Bible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.

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• I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.

  Tom Coburn

  Jobs, Believe, Differences

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.209, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.

  Michael Ray

  Running, Honesty, Business

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• My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.

  Sefi Atta

  Writing, Very Happy, Handy

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