Quotes with position

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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Barry McCaffrey Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Confucius Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bobby Short Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
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  • Ben Carson Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Louis XIV Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
    Louis XIV
    French king, also called Sun King (1638 - 1715)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Ben Zobrist For me, it's not so much about picking the right position; it's about the team.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Bill Flores For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Robert Frost Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Marcel Duchamp I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Frantz Fanon I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
    Frantz Fanon
    French psychiatrist, Algerian freedom fighter and writer (1925 - 1961)
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  • Ahmed Chalabi I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
    Ahmed Chalabi
    Iraqi politician (1944 - 2015)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Roy Lichtenstein I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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  • Bud Grant I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Arlen Specter I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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