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“Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.”

Years Responsibility Careers Position Needed Circumstances Authority Significant Turnaround

Author:Kevin Allen

“I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.”

Men Trying Kind Stuff Principles Crazy Position Conscience Lays Recognition Be A Man

Author:Ice Cube

“I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to have a personal, one-on-one relationship and not look to get through these traditions or these rituals and all this crazy stuff when you could talk to him right here, right now, anytime, anywhere, any place, from any position. And that's the kind of relationship you want, not a standard.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Looks Kind Stuff Crazy Position Right Now Standards Tradition Ritual Want To Be Happy One On One

Author:Ice Cube

“I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies - whoever it is - very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I'm in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.”

Knows Able Beautiful Girl Sports Boys Roles Position Models Impact Role Models Daddy Ambassadors Really Beautiful Boy Girl

Author:Kerri Walsh

“Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.”

Thinking Years Lasts Sound Decision Wonder New York Position Honestly Setting Settings Last Year Jet Bulgaria Down Time

Author:Sean Mahon

“I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.”

Feels Littles Has Beens Real Bits Imagine Streets Rocks Missing Position Brother Band Little Bit Incredibles My Brother Gang Jackets Leather Rock Bands Missing Out Leather Jackets

Author:Eleanor Friedberger

“After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.”

Government Religious Views Support Position Discrimination Consideration Legislation Denominations Marriage Equality Lengthy

Author:Tim Johnson

“My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.”

Focus Position Amount Fairs Gossip Rumor Misperception

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“I think very often when we think we are aiming at the best for our children, what we are really doing is trying to position them for competitive success in an intensely driven kind of society. I'm not sure that always leads to the good life or to happiness.”

Thinking Trying Kind Children Position Our Children Driven Not Sure Good Life

Author:Michael Sandel

“It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.”

Humans Doe Different Church Views Moral Position Tradition Catholic Human Life Catholic Church Mandates Embryos Personhood Developmental Jewish Tradition

Author:Michael Sandel

“With being an Avenger there's not really a hierarchy. Everybody gets to make decisions, everybody's put in a position to save the day as opposed to standing there while one person flies in and saves the day and you're like, "Good job!" Avengers is really a team effort.”

Persons Jobs Decision Effort Team Position Standing Good Job Hierarchy Standing There Avengers Team Effort

Author:Anthony Mackie

“I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.”

Way Stories Position Fortunate

Author:Garth Kravits

“Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.”

Culture Generations Rocks Position Grew Grew Up Music Is 80s Influential Yardsticks Indie Rock

Author:Michael Azerrad

“In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm very interested in "repetition and revision" (to use Suzan Lori-Parks's phrase) and in the culture's desire to loop or repeat.”

Book Use Desire Culture Position Phrases Repeats Parks Repetition Sections Intervention Healer Batteries Loops Revision Sufferers

Author:Laura Mullen

“That's a big fear, right, and when I talk with black pastors, the same thing: If we try to have this move towards interracial congregations, whites will just dominate then. There are so many more of them, and they're used to being in the position of power. So they'll just take over, and we'll lose the one thing we do have.”

Ifs Trying Bigs Moving Used Black Loses One Thing Position Pastor Congregation Position Of Power

Author:Michael Emerson

“It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South, but I've seen it all over the world. Don't care for it at all. I was poor, so I'm used to the underdog position.”

World Heart Seems Care Used Poor Seeing Position Grew Grew Up Racism South Don't Care Underdog

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“But credit card debt is unsecured debt, which means if you get in trouble and cannot pay off your credit card, you can discharge it in bankruptcy. What are they going do to you? If you're in a financial position to just methodically pay off both credit card and student loans, pay them all.”

Ifs Mean Pay Trouble Position Students Financial Credit Debt Cards Loan Credit Card Bankruptcy Discharge Student Loan Credit Card Debt

Author:Suze Orman

“The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to do more to shore up the financial system. We also are gonna have to make sure that we set up financial regulations so that not only does this never happen again, but you start having some sort of - trust in how the credit markets work again.”

Doe Happens Risk Position Huge Financial Credit Vulnerable Shore Regulation Risk-taking Financial System Mismanagement Financial Regulation

Author:Barack Obama

“Millions of filmmakers would love to be in my position right now. If you are honest it makes the world a better place. I created the room with my passion and after all these years it finally worked out.”

Ifs World Years Passion Rooms Millions Honest Position Right Now Filmmaker Better Place My Passion

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“When that character and the X-Force appeared, they took the comic world by storm. You have to look at those numbers. And you see that that isn't Rob Liefeld's only creation. There's all these other things, like Cable and Domino. There's so many things that actually could be fascinating onscreen and unlike anything you've ever seen before onscreen. So I think Fox is in a really nice position where they've got something that feels as wide and different as the Marvel Universe.”

Thinking World Feels Looks Different Character Universe Force Numbers Nice Creation Position Storm Wide Comic Fascinating Foxes Cables Really Nice

Author:Mark Millar

“I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.”

Feels Difficult Understanding Position

Author:Queen Latifah

“If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.”

Ifs Way Kind Position Vulnerable Paradoxical

Author:Philippa Perry

“I'm the person with the final say on everything. I really love being in that position.”

Persons Love Is Position Finals

Author:Paul Reubens

“I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.”

Thinking Way Courses Accepting Example Position Like You Authority Prisoner Syndromes Submissive Pressured Stockholm

Author:Ingrid Betancourt

“Trying is not enough. We have to go out and set goals and measure definitive progress so that four years from now we are in a better position to add new voters to our base of support.”

Trying Years Enough Goal Support Four Progress Position Add Voters Four Years Setting Goals

Author:Kevin Madden

“Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.”

People Persons Has Beens Opportunity Mistake Position Huge Pride Cost Ambition Acknowledge Engaged Throwing Ambitious Respectful Hiring Wrong Person Opportunity Cost

Author:Ivanka Trump

“Even somebody like Bill Clinton, who I happen to admire very much, the second he was out of office, I remember, he was interview in Rolling Stone and he said he thought we should have legalized marijuana. And I thought, gosh, if only you were in some sort of position to affect change in the last eight years where you could have done something about that.”

Ifs Should Years Said Done Happens Lasts Remember Position Office Stones Should Have Bills Clinton Eight Admire Interviews Marijuana Rolling Rolling Stones

Author:Bill Maher

“Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.”

Country Powerful Technology Position Relative Multiple Implications New Technology Really Powerful

Author:Juan Enriquez

“I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet from your ancestors and I think that if you just leave anyone to become a poet based on an aristocratic society, then a lot of people are left out who might have something to offer.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Has Beens Might Left Position Poet Offers Ancestor Left Out Aristocratic

Author:Edward Hirsch

“We [US government] have no fundamental disagreement with the Saudis - I mean, excuse me, with the Iraqis any more than we do with the Arab League, which we happen to support the position they're taking.”

Mean Government Happens Support Position Fundamentals Excuse League Disagreement Saudis Excuse Me

Author:Joe Biden

“God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.”

Ifs Way I Can Choices Walks Position Integrity

Author:Tyler Perry

“I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.”

People Firsts Said States United Enemy United States New York Position Magazines Establishment New York Times Time Magazine

Author:Gore Vidal

“Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.”

Doubt Position Significant No Doubt American Society

Author:Frank Luntz

“I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It locks in that position to keep your throat passage open when you sleep. This is the sacrifice I make for my wife. It was either this device or me sleeping in the other room.”

Made Sleep Rooms Wife Sacrifice Position Like You Fit Mouths My Wife Devices Throat Passages Locks Sleeping In

Author:Richard Gere

“I don't think the idea of requiring these to be only sold to people who have already own the bonds, in other words, this naked position that the Germans have recently put into their financial regulation and has been discussed here. I don't think that makes any sense.”

People Thinking Has Beens Ideas Position Financial Naked Regulation Financial Regulation

Author:Robert F. Engle

“No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.”

Men May Children Book Matter Position Lovers No Matter What Children Of Men

Book:The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books

Source: The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books

“Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east...[Observation in 4th century B.C.]”

Years Morning Sun Fire Sky Century Position Return West East Disappear Observation Evening Jupiter

Author:Gan De

“The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.”

“Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.”

Ifs Men Want Heart Faces Acting Quality Virtue Position Behavior Weakness Advantage Fortune Oneself Favors Good Fortune

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.”

Men Should Believe Shows I Believe Sides Responsibility Leader Accepting Position Committed Favors Stand Alone

Author:Mother Jones

“Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.”

“You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”

Ifs Life Shows Position Positive Insult Life Lesson Disrespect

Author:Red Haircrow

“No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.”

World Mind Matter Opportunity Position Circumstances Shapes Interpreting Freedom To Choose

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.”

Knows Mind Mean Strong Opinion Know How Learning Position Abandon Mediocrity Spirited Opinionated Mean Spirited Strong Mind

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.”

Should Wells Shows Wealth Rich Position Behavior Weakness Brilliant Foolish Ignorant Generous Spite Taoism Wretched Brilliance Reserved Showing Off Spiteful

Author:Zicheng Hong

“After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.”

Knows Has Beens Light Dark Silence Know How Dangerous Position Activity Climbs Taoism Tire Revealing Disturbing High Places

Author:Zicheng Hong

“People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People know that hunger and cold are distressing, but they do not know that the distress of not experiencing cold or hunger is greater.”

People Knows Real Pleasure Greater Position Cold Fame Hunger Pleasant Taoism Distress Anonymity Distressing

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.”

People Given Answers Clear Violence Risk Position Meetings Chicago Mechanism Conferences

Author:Roger Lewin

“Fox News may be demolishing its more liberal cable news rivals in the ratings but to Democrats it's still the bogeyman. That's why President Obama took the opportunity to criticize the network during a speech defending his economic record at Northwestern University today. But in doing so, the president not only demonstrated the weakness of his position but also why he doesn't understand Fox's appeal.”

“The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.”

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