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When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.
Joanne Harris
Life
Myself
People
Think
Else
All People
Constantly
Someone
Myriad
Voices
Write
Putting
Learn
Skill
Should
Using
Position
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
Joe Barton
Try
Will
Sense
Energy
Some
Commerce
Committee
Common
Common Sense
EPA
Use
Regulations
Chairman
Bring
Position
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
Joe Klein
Me
Radical
Cynical
Insight
Take
Journalism
Passes
Stop
Being
Really
Cynicism
Among
Mediocre
Position
And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.
Joe Miller
Constitution
People
Seen
Power
Think
Several
About
Over
Does
Gotten
Provide
Provides
Decades
Stop
Being
Bankrupt
Disingenuous
Us
Last
Need
Position
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Own
Tell
Objects
Pictures
Arranged
Very
Story
Should
Position
If I'm ever in a position where I'm serving to win a grand slam, I'm sure that I will be feeling giddy inside. I will have sweaty palms.
Johanna Konta
Win
Will
Feeling
Giddy
Inside
Sure
Where
Grand
Grand Slam
Sweaty
Slam
Ever
Serving
Position
I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.
John Astin
Long
Before
Else
Guess
Kick
Out
Would
Pretty
Had
Mainstream
Like
Around
Got
Least
Doing
Lotus
Get
Did
Roll
Anybody
Anybody Else
Legs
Then
Full
Used
Flexible
Fun
Things
Position
It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.
John Battelle
You
Leader
Market
Defined
Pretend
Easy
Embrace
Directly
Limited
Go
Being
After
Choices
Your
Number
Two
Position
The only advice I give to acting students is, 'Be nice to your underclassmen. You never know who might be in a position to help you get a job one day.'
John Benjamin Hickey
Day
You
Job
Be Nice
Advice
Nice
One Day
Give
Only
Never
Students
Know
Get
Might
Acting
Your
Help
Who
Position
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
John Boorman
Good
You
Defensive
Than
Get
Being
Good Acting
Acting
Less
Actor
Defending
Position
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
John Burroughs
Art
Bird
Secret
Bits
Kind
Bizarre
Nest
Weaving
Seem
Betrayed
Give
Structure
Both
Conceal
Material
Traditions
Which
Then
Showy
Now
Now And Then
Away
Violate
Position
A lot of the work at Oculus has gone into working out better position tracking.
John Carmack
Work
Better
Gone
Out
Tracking
Lot
Working
Position
I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.
John Caudwell
Great
Freedom
People
Huge
Huge Amount
Privilege
Help
Lucky
Amount
Position
When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.
John Caudwell
Business
Phone
Made
Feeling
Took
Impact
Pretty
Came
Mobile
Quite
Storm
Much
Really
Who
Early
Last
Position
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
John Desmond Bernal
Science
Important
Complete
Relevance
Critically
Detachment
Marxism
Part
Development
Economy
Important Part
Social
Social Development
Shows
Imagined
Position
I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.
John Dingell
Respect
Matter
Think
Enormous
Taken
Getting
May
Just
Formal
Which
Little
Tom
Aware
Things
Position
I've been in the league a lot of years, and I'll know a majority of the coaches, not only in the college ranks but in the professional ranks, both as head coaches, position.
John Dorsey
College
Ranks
Only
Both
Head
League
Know
Majority
Been
Years
Lot
Coaches
Professional
Position
Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.
John Eisenhower
Alone
You
Quality
Father
Will
Judgment
Else
Air
Everything
Everything Else
Mine
Has-Been
Some
Federal
Adult
Had
Simply
Almost
Almost Everything
Name
Were
Affected
Been
Years
Done
Agency
Pop
Aviation
Navigation
Extent
Position
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
Out
Able
Failing
Child
Fixed
Get
Any
Just
Should
Position
If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.
John Fleming
Woman
Legal
Abortion
Country
Pay
Think
Those
Put
Taxpayers
Should
Chooses
Position
I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.
John Grant
Life
Quality
My Life
Addictive
Everything
Seems
Come
Like
Where
Position
Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.
John Harvey Kellogg
Me
Man
Treat
Honest Man
Thought
Other
Way
Would
Never
Had
He
Because
Lord
Than
Official
Any
Any Other Way
Different
Help
Compelled
Honest
Position
From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
John Hickenlooper
Honeymoon
Subjective
Position
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Happy
People
Virtue
Attribute
Makes
Always
Them
Fortunate
Who
Position
I know I'll never be put in the position of making the adulterous mistake, but there are mistakes along the way that are as complicated, that get blown out of proportion because you're not willing to admit that you've made them.
John Krasinski
You
Mistake
Complicated
Made
Mistakes
Way
Out
Willing
Admit
Proportion
Never
Put
Along
Know
Because
Making
Get
Blown
Them
Position
We don't want to think about money in an ideal life; in a well-lived life, money wouldn't be one of our primary concerns, and we prefer to adopt the ostrich position.
John Lanchester
Life
Money
Think
Our
About
Adopt
Primary
Ideal
Concerns
Want
Prefer
Ostrich
Position
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