Thirds Quotes - Page 33

• I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

  Fred Allen

  Inspirational, Memories, Names

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• Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

  Isabel Allende

  Two, World, Assets

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• I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

  Summer Altice

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

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• If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

  Maya Angelou

  Cutting, Allies, Firsts

  "Maya Angelou: It's time to lift America's spirit". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 3, 2008.

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• The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

  Hannah Arendt

  Reality, World, Ideology

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Hypnosis, Speech

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.148, Aeterna Press

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• I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.

  Rodney Atkins

  Heart, Opportunity, Iowa

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• Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Tasks, Literature, More Time

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• Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

  Joe Baca

  Children, Important, Program

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• If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

  Joan Baez

  People, Labels, Singers

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• Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.

  Tyra Banks

  Children, Hate, Cash Flow

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• Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Chance, Another Life, Ready

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• Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Betrayal, Character, Actors

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• Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, Government, Hands

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 16

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• I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.

  Judy Blume

  Hate, People, Focus

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• If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

  Franz Boas

  Intelligent, Equality, Emotional

  Franz Boas (2014). “Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)”, p.75, Routledge

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• In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teacher, Singing, Opera

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.

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• According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

  Christopher Bond

  Marijuana, Generations, Administration

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• My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

  David Brin

  Character, Writing, Ideas

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• Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

  H. Rap Brown

  Thinking, Numbers, Color

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• The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friendship, Pests, Guests

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• In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.

  Julie Burchill

  Husband, Sick, Laid Back

  "Things I've never done before: My first time driving" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2008.

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• In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Mistake, Thinking, Chuck E Cheese

  Nolan Bushnell, Gene Stone (2014). “Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.

  Octavia Butler

  Class, People, Feedback

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• Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Sleep, Men

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.23, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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