Thirds Quotes - Page 15

• Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

  Kamala Harris

  School, Two, Jail

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• It's terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it's like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it's almost like men can have three films in a row that don't do that well and keep on going.

  Julie Delpy

  Mean, Men, Three

  "Round table: Julie Delpy, Ava DuVernay and Leslye Headland on directing". Interview with Nicole Sperling, articles.latimes.com. August 10, 2012.

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• You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Firsts, Remember, Fourth

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• If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Giving, Effort

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• There's nothing tough about playing Third. All a guy needs is a strong arm and a strong chest.

  Frankie Frisch

  Strong, Guy, Needs

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• As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?"

  DJ Shadow

  Party, Artist, Stores

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Running, Talking, Weather

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's father] drew his power from the first really important al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir, who was executed by Saddam in 1980, together with his sister. So it's really a family of martyrs, and that's why Muqtada suddenly emerged from nowhere with the fall of Saddam.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Religious, Father, Fall

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, Talking, Impact

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Artist, Want, Firsts

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  Wavy Gravy

  Cheer, Pain, Kids

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• One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.

  Frank Knight

  Team, Block, Play

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• The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us.

  Mike Bickle

  Weakness, Calling, Want

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• How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Zero, Children, Kids

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Beautiful, Novel, Rate

  Marlene Van Niekerk (2008). “The Way of the Women”, Abacus Software

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• ...in every religion the priest insists on five things -
  First: There is a God.
  Second: He has made known his will.
  Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
  Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
  Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Messages, Firsts, Failing

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• Dawn Of The Dead is about how we're just a country cannibalizing itself, turning into one shopping mall, and everyone at the mall is just brain-dead, wandering around. Capitalism gone awry, and the worst parts of human nature coming out. All these different things that people read into the films that are all there, very strong anti-Bush sentiments that went into making those films. It's great. I like it when people get it the second or third time, when someone else points it out to them. They don't realize it's been there all along. Those are my favorite movies.

  Eli Roth

  Country, Strong, Shopping

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• George Clooney likes to talk about himself in the third person mostly. He's always enjoyed it. Listen, I don't like to think in those terms, where you just have to completely separate yourself one from the other.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Likes, Third Person

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• It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

  Clive James

  Thinking, People, Might

  Clive James (2008). “Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts”, p.215, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Today Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance against gay marriage. Trump said marriage is between a rich guy and his much younger third wife.

  Conan O'Brien

  Gay, Wife, Guy

  "Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Joke About Donald Trump and NBC Parting Ways". www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 29, 2015.

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• The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.

  John le Carre

  War, Mean, Government

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• The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.

  Edward S. Herman

  People, World, Majority

  Edward S. Herman (1982). “The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda”, p.10, South End Press

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• Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Oxygen, Two

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• The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Doctrine, Lasts, Devotion

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