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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 am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.

  Spike Lee

  Roots, Trying, Film

  "So What's On Your Mind, Spike Lee?". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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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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• India has probably lost its position to China as the world's workshop. At the same time it has the power to be ahead of China when it comes to knowledge. Not that the Chinese are far behind. They will get there. But our challenge is to invest sufficiently in education.

  Ratan Tata

  Challenges, Chinese, India

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• Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.

  Evo Morales

  Sports, Presidential, Alcohol

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• There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Couple, Humor

  "Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra". Comedy, Music, May 9, 2009.

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• I'm in a weird position, because I like rainbows, but I'm not gay. So whenever I go out wearing a rainbow shirt, I have to put "Not gay." But I'm not against gays, so under that I'll have to put "... but supportive." It's weird how one group of people took refracted light. That's very greedy, gays.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Gay

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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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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• The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

  Agnes Varda

  War, Party, Exhibitions

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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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• No matter what. I like to be different. Its not easy to work the way we want, because we have to deal with a lot of judgmental people, but we've always been in that position, so its nothing we cannot handle.

  Oliviero Toscani

  People, Want, Matter

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.

  Stan Shih

  Vision, Needs, Strategy

  "The 'Fast-Food' Computer Company". Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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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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• Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Hands, People, Patterns

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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 realised what a powerful position you are in if you own the rights to your film because then you control the distribution and I ended up getting 25 million viewers for McLibel and that's what it's all about for me.

  Franny Armstrong

  Powerful, Rights, Film

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

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• I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Responsibility, Together, Spirit

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that 'good' men in positions of power will produce evil, while the ordinary man without power but able to engage in voluntary cooperation with his neighbors will produce good, requires analysis and thought, subordinating emotions to the rational.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Men, Position Of Power

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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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