Position Quotes - Page 9

• Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. But we are idols and we're all gods, so to speak, and I think that celebrities should acknowledge their responsibility, because we are in a position to help.

  Dolly Parton

  Religious, Responsibility, Thinking

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

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• It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Powerful, Gay, Men

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• Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Senior, Mean, Competition

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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 need to put people in positions of authority in government, business, law, medicine, media, sports and entertainment who are filled with the laws of God so that we can bring those laws into effect.

  Myles Munroe

  Sports, Government, Media

  Source: encomium.ng

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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 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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• For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Unique, Issues, Important

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Earth, Gravitation

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. As I searched through the Bible for models of great faith, I was struck by how few saints experienced anything like Job's dramatic encounter with God. The rest responded to the hiddenness not by demanding that he show himself, but by going ahead and believing him though he stayed hidden.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Jobs

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

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• I was never a nightclub manager or a hostess. I want to make that very clear. I was an executive at my club. I was a director of VIP operations, that's much different than a manager, that's much different than a waitress, it's different than, you know, a host - I was like an executive-level position

  Rachel Uchitel

  Different, Levels, Clubs

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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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• 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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• Here's a man who was twice elected to the most powerful position on Earth despite needing a TelePrompTer to correctly identify what year it was.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Powerful, Men

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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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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