Thirds Quotes - Page 25

• If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

  Brad Williams

  Thinking, Average, League

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The Donald Trump who showed up at this press conference, though he did extend his hand to President Pena Nieto, say, I consider you a friend, he said he talked about first-generation, second-
  generation, third-generation Mexican-American, he said - his words here - he considers them beyond reproach.

  Steve Kornacki

  Hands, Mexican, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Party, Political

  Source: thesaker.is

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• We now have only 31 brigade combat teams or 490,000 troops. And only one-third of combat teams are considered combat-ready. That's not good for our country. I actually don't even like saying it because plenty of countries are watching us right now, but we'll get it shaped up very quickly.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Team, Troops

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in. By reading you hone your internal ear for style. Second, write. Everything comes down to it; unless you write, you are not a writer. Third, submit your work. But - stop chasing every seductive new market out there, and stop trying to write for the tastes of specific established professional markets and editors. That way lies mediocrity and eventual
  dissolution of your true voice, no matter how embryonic or pronounced it may be now.

  Vera Nazarian

  Lying, Reading, Writing

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

  Country, Fate, People

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”

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• Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Years, Casinos

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• Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Years, Machines

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• The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment's prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments.

  Frank Zindler

  Religious, Freedom Of Speech, Atheism

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• Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes only? Could anything be more un-American than the Second Commandment's warning that "I Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation."? Not even the Common Law would have hung a man because his grandfather had stolen a horse!

  Frank Zindler

  Horse, Children, Father

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• [How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to form theories freely of how to rid yourself of that burden . . . ; The third step is to develop in foresight the consequences of your proposals . . . ; The fourth and final step in thinking is to compare the consequences of your proposals to see which is best in the light of your scheme of life as a whole . . . ; Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by - think!

  Brand Blanshard

  Party, Thinking, Vacation

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• I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

  Ann Patchett

  Loyalty, Mother, Sibling

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.

  Mark Mendoza

  Book, Reading, Watching Tv

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

  Colin Firth

  Book, Writing, Long

  "Colin Firth on the Long Road to "Bridget Jones's Baby" and the Unconventional "Kingsman 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 16, 2016.

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• I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Writing, Opportunity, World

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  People, Giving, Population

  Source: bookpage.com

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• So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

  Emma Donoghue

  Caring, Epic, People

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible bestiality of the Orient.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Dark, Iraq, People

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Hate, World, West

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have the highest disapproval and distrust rates ever in our history for these two presidential candidates, which the system is doing everything it can to force down our throats.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Two, Presidential

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Even the majority of their own voters do not support them. It's something like 25 percent of [Donald] Trump supporters that actually support him. The majority actually hates Hillary [Clinton], and the same is true for Hillary. One-third of her supporters really like her. They dislike fear and hate Donald Trump. What's wrong with this picture?

  Jill Stein

  Hate, Support, Majority

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Baseball, Struggle, Athlete

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a sense of social reality that has been lost in the abstractly formalistic economic theories that have dominated the field since the last third of the nineteenth century.

  Allen W. Wood

  Reality, Humanity, Vision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Whereas I remember being in Dakar, in Senegal, where I have my third studio, and street casting, and I remember looking at the faces of the young men that we were speaking to through translators and so on, showing them the books. Complete - completely different response.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Book, Men, Faces

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

  Edward Boyden

  Successful, Trying, Projects

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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