Position Quotes - Page 17

• It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

  W. Kamau Bell

  People, Black, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as a filmmaker. I went to film school; I was a PA on a lot of projects and I worked so hard, you know, you're young and I learned from different mentors. And luck put me in the position to work with amazing people. One of my mentors by the name of Little X, who took me under his wing after I came out of film school and moved to New York. I worked in videos for Jay-Z, Pharrell to Busta Rhymes and Wyclef. I quickly realized how much I wanted to make films instead of music videos.

  Storm Saulter

  New York, School, Jamaica

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

  Gina Torres

  Color, Position Of Power, Television

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you get new people in, you're going to have a breath of fresh air and there's going to be a window when people will decide what direction to go. It'll be determined by outside events, by the personalities that occupy those positions, and by the treatment they receive both from the press and the public, of the honeymoon period.

  Ted Gup

  Air, People, Personality

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's powerfully important for me as a pro-choice person and person who supports Planned Parenthood to have Rob accept me as not a baby-killing horrible person. That's actually a massive step away from his original position, and he's taking a lot of heat in his world just for being my friend, just for hanging around with me.

  Abigail Disney

  Baby, Choices, Support

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Country, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm trying mostly to ask questions. And not just trying to stake out a position on something, but also trying to define the stuff we agree on. I'm having battles with comment posters trying to insert a little sense of order so it's not just a long pissing match between the edges, which is what I think a lot of the blogosphere is tending to do.

  Andrew Revkin

  Thinking, Order, Long

  Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

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• The intelligence services would probably be in a better position to make an assessment of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program than Podhoretz or Ledeen. They don't have access to any specific information. So for them to dismiss it has no great value because they have no authority whatsoever on this issue. For them to push forward with their efforts to get a war started between the U.S. and Iran, you certainly cannot say that Iran does not have a nuclear program. If you say that, then the justification for war has basically been eliminated.

  Trita Parsi

  War, Intelligence Services, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think Hillary Clinton is a militarist. She is a political coward. The interesting thing about Hilary Clinton, like Bill Clinton dodging the draft, he never touched the Pentagon - she is in the same position.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Interesting, Political

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Netanyahu adheres to his old position: He doesn't want a Palestinian state, and he doesn't want to give up the settlements and the occupied territories. Pressure from abroad is the only way to change anything.

  Tom Segev

  Giving Up, Want, Territory

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.

  Kristina Schroder

  Hunters, Needs, Quota

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• For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.

  Kristina Schroder

  Son, Men, Role Models

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• I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk.

  Claudia Rankine

  Taken, Men, Thinking

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Revenge, Issues, Firsts

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• Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position by reference to the Christian faith.

  Gilles Kepel

  Christian, Political, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a spotted cow but not morally wrong to eat meat from a non-spotted cow.

  Gary L. Francione

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Meat

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You have Weapon X. you have government spending millions of dollars to make it, and then you have these guys who are making thugs out of people that they pull off the street, or who are damaged, or who have found themselves in terrible positions for some reason.

  Timothy Miller

  Nice, Thug, Government

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• Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

  Ben Lerner

  Moving, Writing, Irony

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Judging, Competition

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Opposites, Issues, Holocaust

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

  Andrea M. Ghez

  Ucla, World, Telescopes

  "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.

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• One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.

  Frank Knight

  Team, Block, Play

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• There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Two, Degrees

  Interview with Adam Jones, February 20, 1990.

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• There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is only one libertarian position on immigration, and that position is open immigration or open borders.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Government, Two, Perception

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