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Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.
Michael Bloomberg
Rights
Country
Half
Believe
Every
Positions
Out
Guns
Darwin
Pro-Choice
Against
Cuts
Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence - or even the rejection - of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization.
Michael Hayden
Intelligence
Face
Intelligence Community
Community
Rejection
Positions
Analyst
Evidence
Favored
About
Prima
Unusual
Passionate
American
Even
Presence
Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.
Michael Portillo
Positions
Say
Must
Ditch
Untenable
Then
Ridiculous
Things
Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.
Michelle Bachelet
Good
Women
Management
Smart
Positions
Right Thing
Sector
Having
More
Only
Bottom
Bottom Line
Line
Senior
Formal
The Right Thing
Boards
Workers
Company
Right
Thing
I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.
Mike Gordon
Change
Three
Think
Bass
Positions
Too
Boost
System
Out
One Thing
Frequency
Sound
Real
Goes
Just
Subtle
Just One
Lowered
Helped
Switch
Thing
My outspoken positions haven't always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary.
Mike Quigley
Congress
Positions
Outspoken
Halls
Always
Been
Rooted
Popular
Believed
Right
Necessary
In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays in the marriage as a way to serve both her personal ambition as well as their shared ambition to achieve ever-greater positions of power and influence.
Monica Crowley
Marriage
Achieve
Wife
Husband
Power
Ambition
Positions
Way
Presumably
Distressed
Wearing
Stays
Both
Shared
Support
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
She
Well
Clinton
Model
Personal
Influence
While
Public
Chooses
Expression
Serve
Her
When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.
Morrissey
You
Yourself
People
Better
Degree
Power
Older
Think
Positions
Those
Must
See
Some
About
Absolutely
True
Feel
Most
Because
Inept
Makes
Get
Younger
Realize
Skill
Naturally
Who
Position
There's a lot of positions I like to play. I think maybe the diversity is something positive.
Mousa Dembele
Positive
Diversity
Think
Positions
Something
Like
Lot
Maybe
Play
When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.
Muqtada al Sadr
Fire
Big
Positions
Too
Attacking
Advance
Support
New
Retreat
Force
Call
American
Again
Then
Harass
I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.
Mystikal
Myself
Control
Positions
Allow
I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
Nancy Pelosi
Pride
Positions
Take
Never
Walked
Any
Them
Away
I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true.
Naomi Alderman
Education
Power
Wish
Rich
Positions
Open
True
Abuse
Were
Dependent
Children
Poor
Really
Successful
Working-Class
I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
Natalia Makarova
Me
Better
Understanding
Gesture
Positions
Give
Had
Better Understanding
Feet
Schooling
Because
How
Am
Line
Modern
Taught
Different
Wanted
Working
Things
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
Neil MacGregor
Women
Battle
Few
Society
Positions
High
Status
Records
Participating
Known
Human
While
Held
Certainly
I realize that 'hire qualified women!' is the sort of outraged demand that's often met with a sigh. No one disagrees, and yet gender inequality in high-paying positions extends into all professions.
Nell Scovell
Women
Gender
Met
Positions
Sigh
High-Paying
Outraged
No-One
Demand
Qualified
Sort
Inequality
Hire
Often
Realize
Professions
I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine.
Nia Long
Opportunity
Shine
Think
Positions
Other
Those
About
Put
Talented
Lot
Going
Just
Where
Actor
Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.
Nicholas Jarecki
Saying
People
Some People
Power
Mistakes
Positions
Everybody
Easy
Some
Make
Am
Go
Human
Incentives
I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.
Nicole Holofcener
You
Women
Power
Few
Difficult
Positions
Kind
General
More
Know
Make
Sure
Because
Blockbusters
Few Women
Going
Want
Movies
Many
Necessarily
I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
Nina Fedoroff
Government
You
Overcome
Positions
Know
How
Scientists
Dearth
The more women and people of color who find positions of influence, the more women and people of color who will find positions of influence. So we need critical mass, and we're still working toward that. I won't be satisfied until we're at the 50-50 place, where we ought to be.
Nina Jacobson
Women
People
Will
Satisfied
Positions
Ought
Critical
Critical Mass
Find
More
Color
Toward
Mass
Until
Still
Influence
Where
Place
Working
Who
Need
Some of us have held the hands of friends or brothers as they struggled with military and police academy recruiters, and though many of them never dreamed of being policemen, a lack of opportunities led them to those positions.
Opal Tometi
Police
Opportunities
Military
Positions
Those
Though
Dreamed
Some
Brothers
Struggled
Never
Academy
Policemen
Led
Friends
Hands
Lack
Being
Them
Us
Held
Many
There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.
Paul Walker
Rest
Positions
Earn
Way
Laurels
Guys
Had
Comfortable
Lot
Get
Just
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
Pete Rose
Money
Positions
Making
Should
Playing
Two
In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
Peter Asher
You
Business
People
Positions
Other
Sympathy
More
Learn
Any
Sympathetic
Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone in taking such positions in much of today's Republican Party.
Peter Bergen
Today
Alone
Hungary
Party
Positions
France
Pen
Both
He
Taking
Reminiscent
Although
Trump
Republican
Republican Party
Far
Much
Stance
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