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“I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.”

Position Conservative

Author:Rand Paul

“Benjamin Netanyahu said that ultimately, they will be stronger when they're independent. My position is exactly the same. We shouldn't borrow money from China to send it anywhere, but why don't we start with eliminating aid to our enemies.”

Said Enemy Position Stronger Independent China Aids Eliminating

Author:Rand Paul

“I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration.”

Years Believe Able Strong Enemy Position Safe Israel Eight Priorities Administration Fund Disagree Senators Funding

Author:Chris Christie

“I think squats is a generic thing - you can do squats with anything. That's the great thing about it. As long as you get in a safe position to do it.”

Thinking Long Can Do Position Safe Great Things Generic

Author:Greg Rutherford

“A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.”

Said Political Groups Position Expectations Disapproving

Book:Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture

Source: Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture

“At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.”

Years Taken Position England France Germany Divergent

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene, or anything like that. I just try to put myself in the characters position, and that helps. It's never really fun, but at the same time, if you're having a really bad day, it's a great way to get out all of your frustration by doing a really angry or sad scene. That's always a good release.”

Ifs Way Trying Character Helping Fun Cry Position Scene Angry Release Frustration Bad Day Really Bad Days

Author:Abigail Breslin

“I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.”

“The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.”

Whole Social Position Ought Being True Journalism Arrogant Impressed Overwhelmed

Author:Gore Vidal

“I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.”

Social Known Position

Author:Gore Vidal

“I have no respect for the right-to-life position. But when you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion. The Catholic Church may espouse its opinion on abortion to the members of its congregation. But they are in violation of separation of church and state when they try to proselytize their abortion politics on people who are not Catholics.”

“I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Writing Felt Greater Risk Fronts Events Position New Yorkers Very Deep

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I definitely think we need to lean more on God. And I do think we need to praise, because we need to give it outward. You know, whenever you think you're in tough circumstances, there's always somebody who's in a worse position than you.”

Thinking Knows Needs Giving Position Circumstances Tough Praise

Author:Queen Latifah

“It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.”

People Way Should Believe Problem Together Law I Believe Behinds Attitude Position Agree Don't Believe Disagree Public Life Way To Live

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time to a score that it deserves, I'll pass. I'll also turn down a film if its moral position is different than what my own understanding of right and wrong.”

Ifs I Can Different Reason Film Turns Understanding My Own Common Moral Position Projects Deserve Score Schedules

Author:John Keltonic

“Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.”

Ifs Feels Jobs Actors Position Pages Scripts

Author:Dermot Mulroney

“Who knows why women aren't - obviously, rock 'n' roll, I keep saying this, but aggressive and in a way that is sexually aggressive, like the singer is the aggressor. And people don't want to see girls in that position. They would rather go after them.”

People Knows Way Want Girl Rocks Position Singers Aggressive Rock N Roll Sexually Aggressors

Author:Kristen Stewart

“There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Important Issues Clear Position Conversation Ministers Prime Prime Minister Controversial

Author:Tony Abbott

“Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.”

Firsts Looks Father House Silence Position Ready Mets Pure Twenties Sensitive Dependent Contempt Offense Distrust Unbearable Condemnation Filthy Chaste Debauchery

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“But I'm here to serve people. I'm not here to wave my finger in people's faces and point out to them how terrible they are or what I hate about them or anything along those lines. That's not my place. I'm in no position to condemn anybody.”

People Faces Hate Lines Position Terrible I Hate Fingers Wave

Author:LeCrae

“Someone said, and rightfully, that "property is theft'." There's no way a man can stand and tell me that he owns an apple tree. I just don't believe you. And so this pursuit of position and money and power, they are all wrapped up into one package that I think is crippling, debilitating and limiting. And unfortunately, people get sucked into it and then they've got you on the treadmill. You know: ''You've got to have a good job'' and "You've got to have a good education'' - which is another word for indoctrination. We're never going to rise above these limitations we've placed on ourselves.”

“I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That would be the dynamic, if I was like: "Hey, you're my son, watch my work!" I don't want to put them in that awkward position. Just because when they get older, that's when I'm worried, that they'll judge me and say: "Yeah, my father's ******* Jack Black. He was in that cheesy movie." So, I'm going to keep it all high quality. It'll be a quality controller.”

Ifs Thinking Want Play Hands Would Be Kids Song Father Black Quality Watches Position Son Judging Mouths Yeah Hey Worried My Son Awkward Cheesy High Quality Hey You Judge Me Controllers

Author:Jack Black

“I was always reticent about taking offerings from my father, and I think it was maybe because I felt the caveat was that I had to give something back, and I didn't like that position. But I've never felt incumbent on anyone to kind of keep them lifted or to support them, necessarily. I do that by wish or by option.”

Thinking Giving Kind Father Wish Felt Support Position Offering Incumbents

Author:Anjelica Huston

“I think that mentoring is such a critical part of the role I can play in my position. I see how little bits of exposure and big bits of exposure really change my girls significantly, and I want that for more girls around the country and the world.”

Thinking World Want Littles I Can Country Play Bigs Girl Bits Roles Position Little Bit Critical Exposure Mentoring My Girl

Author:Michelle Obama

“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.”

People Thinking Want Feels Mean Enough Position Comfortable Skins Titles Salary Measure Of Success Define Success

Author:Charlene Li

“I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.”

Men Should Position Frustrated Sturdy

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“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.”

People Ifs May Persons Important Helping Position Color

Author:Nhat Hanh

“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.”

People Social My Own Known Position Youth Type Ought Arrogant Impressed Overwhelmed

Author:Gore Vidal

“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.”

People Thinking Men Would Be Community Powerful Streets Position Gay Notion Idiot Productive Helpful Coming Out Living On Gay Men Preconceived Notions

Author:Madonna Ciccone

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

Ifs Knows Mean Position Competition Senior

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“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.”

Bigs Common Position Republican Core Immigration Common Core

Author:Jeb Bush

“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.”

Kind I Can Play Character Dream Kids Guy Actors Roles Player Position Becoming Lucky Baseball Yankees Good Movie Baseball Player Character Actors Lucky Guy

Author:Christopher Walken

“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.”

People Needs Government Law Sports Effects Media Position Authority Filled Medicine Entertainment

Author:Myles Munroe

“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.”

World Want States Nations United United States Position Bother Empires Jeopardy Havoc American Empire

Author:Howard Zinn

“I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.”

People Thinking Want Religious Position Secular

Author:John Green

“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.”

Feels Kind Said Important Certain Culture Speak Issues Position Unique Burden Novelists Afghanistan Refugee Behalf Afghan

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“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.”

Political Term Wealth Economic Position Endeavor Prestige

Author:William J. Clinton

“I'd like to think that we've certainly strengthened the position of some of our government businesses.”

Thinking Government Position

Author:Peter Gutwein

“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.”

Jobs Grows Economy Position Source Stronger Financial Budgets Revenue

Author:Peter Gutwein

“It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.”

Position Dignity Wheels Our Love

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“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.”

Ifs Reason Age Culture Numbers Position Becoming India Partners

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

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

Earth Together Position Nonviolence Gravitation

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“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.”

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“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”

Knows Want Different Levels Clear Position Directors Clubs Managers Operations Executives Host Waitress Nightclubs Hostesses Vip

Author:Rachel Uchitel

“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.”

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Position Argument Assuming Sake Libertarian

Author:Dave Barry

“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.”

Ifs Giving Would Be Three Force Position Trump Deserve Response Immigration Racist Three Words Outlandish

Author:Bill Richardson

“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.”

Men Long Self Happens Able Law Given Conditions Position Easier Comfortable Empowerment Rage Tolerance Contact Excess Oppressed Affirmation Self Affirmation New Position

Author:Betty Friedan

“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.”

Feels Matter Actors Waiting Natural Position Sitting No Matter What Likes Sitting And Waiting

Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“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.”

Men Years Earth Funny Powerful Position Despite Most Powerful Reaganomics

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

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