Position Quotes

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.
Chris Isaak

Nice, Mind, Writing

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.
Tim McGraw

Family, Hard, Everything

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.
Ellen Page

Age, Time, Help

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
E. L. Doctorow

Trust, Writing, Find

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.
Roger Goodell

Leadership, Sports, Football

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.
Chris Daughtry

Ashamed, Records, Millions

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
Denise Mina

Parents, Both, Families

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.
Denise Mina

Time, Strong, Person

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
John Engler

School, Able, Child

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.
Alexander Wang

Work, School, Everything

Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.
Tina Yothers

Pretty, Direction, Started

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.
Tom Brady

Game, Play, Intensely

When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
Warren Beatty

Movies, Yourself, Thought

We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.
Eric Cantor

Health, Care, After

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'
Eric Cantor

Money, Government, Mean

The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.
Eric Cantor

Down, America, Here

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
Ehud Olmert

Against, Israel, Threat

I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.
Ryan Kwanten

Work, Great, Movies

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.
Ryan Kwanten

Money, Live, Career

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.
Leland Stanford

Society, Individual, Interest

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.
Michael Fassbender

School, Thinking, Through

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.
Michael Fassbender

Work, Crazy, Seriously

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.
Rufus Sewell

I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.
Mark Burnett

Care, Rich, Learned

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
Germaine Greer

Great, Enemy, Help

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
Adolf Loos

Art, Everything, Him

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.
Nancy Grace

Someone, Reality, Guilty

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.
John Sexton

Trying, Sense, Rather

And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.
John Sexton

Around, Times, Camera

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
Norman Lamm

May, Religious, Facts

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