A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.
There's no question that to some extent there are structural disadvantages built in, not just for women but for other minority groups who don't hold power at the executive level either at the company or in the industry. My position is not just "Oh, okay, anyone can overcome those. " It's just as we work to get more women and people in minority groups at higher levels in positions of power, what are our options?
Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power
When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.
The only entry level position on a movie is director.
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time
We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.
You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.
It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.
It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.
Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.
Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.
That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It's an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have. . . . . The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay's quarterback. We'd probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb).
The position of EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs could be combined with the office of Euro Group chairman. That job would be a great challenge for anyone who assumed it. On the one hand, he would have to make proposals. On the other hand, he would have to negotiate compromises with his European counterparts.
There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.