Thirds Quotes - Page 35

• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Dad, Funny Motivational

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• I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

  Leo Durocher

  Mother, Running, Travel

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• God watches over drunks and third baseman.

  Leo Durocher

  Drunk, Watches

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• I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Generations, Delight

  "Veteran showman Dick Van Dyke reflects on lifetime's work". Interview with Jill Jacobs, www.reuters.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

  Paul Engle

  July, Precious Stones, Envy

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• I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

  Richard Eyre

  Thinking, World, Cliffs

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• I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

  Renee Fleming

  Third Person, Performances, Persons

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• I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Home, Second Chance, House

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• When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.

  Al Franken

  Party, Apples, People

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• I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

  Lady Gaga

  Fans, Doe, Way

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• I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.

  Richard Gere

  Real, Party, Voting

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• There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Malaria, World, Bills

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• When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Yield, Data, Mind

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• I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances.

  Selena Gomez

  Believe, Second Chance, Fourth

  Interview With Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

  Al Gore

  Winning, Littles, Categories

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 26 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.

  Brian Greene

  Moving, Kids, Talking

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• Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.

  Brian Greene

  Book, Writing, Different

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• When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

  Christine Gregoire

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.

  Robert Griffin III

  Games, Stronger, Chance

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• For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

  Chris Hadfield

  Years, Space Flight, Two

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• We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

  Larry Hagman

  Memorable, Dallas, Moments

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• You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

  Alexander Haig

  War, Battle, President

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• There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

  Michael Haneke

  Luxury Hotels, Evil, Sitting

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