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• I see women going anywhere they want to. And I do mean want to. Because a lot of people measure success merely by position, title and salary. I think women feel comfortable enough in their own skin to put that secondary to what they want. They don't have to define success by the measure of society.

  Charlene Li

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Love doesn't have any color. Other people may discriminate against us, but what is more important is whether we discriminate against them. If we don't do that, we are a happier person, and as a happier person, we are in a position to help. And anger, this is not a help.

  Nhat Hanh

  Color, People, Important

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Arrogant, Overwhelmed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

  Jeb Bush

  Immigration, Common, Republican

  "Sony caves on free speech; Bill Cosby's team rips CNN". "MediaBuzz" with Howard Kurtz, www.foxnews.com. December 21, 2014.

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• I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

  Christopher Walken

  Baseball, Dream, Character

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• 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 never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

  William J. Clinton

  Political, Wealth, Prestige

  "Q&A: How Bill Clinton is Changing the World". Interview with Patricia Storace, www.cntraveler.com. August 15, 2007.

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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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• Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Position Of Power, Giving

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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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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• 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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• An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

  Al Pacino

  Waiting, Sitting, Actors

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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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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• We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Real, Russia, Political

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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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• 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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