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When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.
If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.
I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.
You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't even know if I dreamed this big.
My position on democracy is really clear. Any attempt to overthrow the country is a betrayal to our unity and is treason.
Our job collectively, players and coaches, is to figure out a way to play that we can put ourselves in a position to win.
I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma.
The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.
At the quarterback position I would say mental is just as important as physical. Then there's that emotional component too.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.
That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by the nose.
People who work hard for their money cannot be placed in a worse position that those who allow their money to work for them.
Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
I think it's important for the American people to know that the position of originalism isn't itself an originalist position.
I've never played, on the field, any other position besides quarterback. Never been on a special team. Never been on defense.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.
I have not reached a considered position on the question of court-packing. Although I don't think we should be laughing at it.
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.
I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.
But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
I feel at Manchester City I will get the chance to play regularly in my best position and play a big part in a successful side.
I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.
Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
Becoming eighty is a matter of life or death. I chose life. It is a much better position to be in, and it's easier on your back.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.