“Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.” WayFeelsHas BeensDifferentStagePositionSeekingDifferent WaysDragSecularMarginsPeripherySecular SocietyCenter Stage Author:Karen Armstrong
“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.” WellsPersonsSelfPoliticalDesireStagePossibilityPositionFoolSceneAmbitionClaimsMadnessPraiseCriticsDefinitionsFollyCriticizeLicenseRivalsRivalryReprisalErasmus Author:J. M. Coetzee
“I took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted against the Iraq war resolution. And I happen to think it was the right position. Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion, and it could rise the casualties could go into the thousands and the costs could go over a half trillion if we stay there for years, as a number of people on this stage intend to see happen.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsWarHappensTodayNumbersHalfStagePositionCostDemocratIraqBillionsResolutionIraq WarCasualtiesOver 50 Author:Dennis Kucinich
“I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.” IfsCharacterCoursesBehindsComedyStagePositionDramaClubsActiveHidingAversionDrama Club Author:Bob Newhart
“Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.” MenRealReasonStagePositionHigherQuantityThronesSimplestSummitDiscontentWisestEminence Book:The fall Source: The fall
“If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.” IfsMenMayProblemActorsSocialBlackWhiteRaceClassStagePositionEvolutionWeightCastsProductionsExecutivesMixing Author:Howard Schultz
“As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.” YearsHumansStillsCountryEnoughYoungSpiritPurposeNationsWishConditionsStagePositionEvolutionNobleExcellentCanadaDevotedOther CountriesHuman SpiritFlexibleCentennial Author:Lester B. Pearson
“It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of view more than anything. I had the feeling that if you put yourself in the position of the actor on stage and write from that perspective, it would give you a certain advantage in terms of being inside of the play.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingHardPlayFeelingsCertainActorsTermViewsStagePositionPerspectiveAdvantagePoint Of View Author:Sam Shepard
“When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingCharacterSongVoiceImaginationInterestingEnvironmentAchieveStagePositionEgoSingingStudiosLike MeVarietyAlternativesReplicateAlter Ego Author:Planningtorock
“I tend to prefer the band thing. I think playing solo is good for about 45 minutes. I remember when I was on my solo tour that I got a chance to play with Martin Stephenson of the Daintees. He's now refashioned himself as almost a delta blues guitar player and he's got all the technique, all the persona and the charisma on stage. I think I do too, but I'm more of a first position strummer guy with a little bit of filigree work. I could listen to him for hours; I could listen to myself playing solo for about half an hour!” ThinkingFirstsLittlesPlayRememberGuyBitsHoursChanceHalfPlayerMinutesStagePositionBandLittle BitGuitarTechniqueSoloRemember WhenPersonaCharismaGuitar PlayerDeltaDelta Blues Author:Bill Mallonee
“Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wished that other people in prominent positions wouldn't feel the compulsion to have an answer for everything and would feel equally free to say "I don't know." It's a sign of wisdom to know that you don't know and a sign of stupidity to think that you know everything. I admire it enormously in him, and wonder why so few people in leading positions reach that stage.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsAbilityAnswersWonderStagePositionStupidityListsAdmireImpressCompulsionProminentLamaDalai Author:David Steindl-Rast
“I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a certain skill set; then being in the studio, and being curled up in the fetal position under the piano, that requires another skill set.” PeopleThinkingCertainStageFrontsPositionSkillsStudiosPianoInvigoratingAmazing Experiences Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.” IfsKindPersonsStagePositionKingsDialogueClosestLutherExclusive Author:Ella Baker