Standpoint Quotes - Page 8

• From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Silly, Self, Playing Music

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big deal. You may be an African American next to a Caucasian or a Latino. But once practice begins and we drop in, separation dissolves.

  James Fox

  Yoga, Practice, Class

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• Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.

  Tara Stiles

  Life Lesson, Ego, Balance

  Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.21, Harmony

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• You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Law, Answers, Resolution

  "Sandra Day O'Connor Explores Supreme Court History, Inner Workings". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 3, 2013.

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• It is true that the role of the state in the Russian economy may be too big today, but from the fiscal standpoint, it is not always practical to do this in a falling market.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fall, Roles, Russian Economy

  Source: thesaker.is

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• We don't have music that talks about sexuality from a female standpoint.

  Demi Lovato

  Female, Sexuality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• From a performance standpoint, it just gives [actors] so much - I had such a great cast [ in Valley of Violence] - and it gives them the ability to go wild with it and to have performances that are memorable.

  Ti West

  Memorable, Giving, Valleys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With anything, you have to approach from an educational, mature standpoint.

  Zendaya

  Educational, Mature, Approach

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• JPMorgan is a very good franchise. And the way you should look at a franchise, a business, is from the standpoint of the customers.

  Jamie Dimon

  Looks, Way, Should

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I don't want people to see what I've been doing at Play Cloths for nine years and built from a streetwear independence standpoint through Japanese streetwear - I don't want that to be shifted into something else.

  Pusha T

  Play, Years, People

  Source: www.nicekicks.com

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• I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Thinking, Levels

  "Larry King Live" with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. May 30, 2005.

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• Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Drunk, Freedom Of Speech

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

  L. Neil Smith

  Reality, Media, Space

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech. If businesses in your nations are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably impact on growth.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Impact, Political

  Newseum Address on Internet Freedom, delivered 21 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• The government is already involved from an entertainment standpoint. I mean, they regulate a large part of our entertainment. What we're trying to do as an industry is be proactive and drive it much more positively, much more effectively, than the government can, and that's what the ESA is all about[....]We think we're doing a pretty effective job, and certainly from an Nintendo perspective, we think the ESA is the way to go.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing up. Classic films were some of the only ones I watched. So when the opportunity came for the show to audition, of course it was all of a sudden, "I sing! I sing! Send me in, please. I beg of you."

  Dianna Agron

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Musical

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Religious, Mass Destruction, Iran

  "Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. September 25, 2013.

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• We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.

  Adolf Hitler

  Land, People, Giving

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.

  Sasha Grey

  Couple, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.

  Ben Lindsey

  Mother, Children, Married

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• A yoga session is harder than a football practice easily for me. Probably in some ways just as intense, not from a physical standpoint of hitting ,but from a game, the intensity is the same.

  Andrew Whitworth

  Football, Yoga, Practice

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

  John Ruskin

  Age, Needs, Thorough

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• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  Questlove

  Art, Hip Hop, Hips

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• There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.

  David Bezmozgis

  Book, Thinking, Perfect

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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