Thirds Quotes - Page 36

• Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

  Tom Hanks

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "Captain Courageous". "The Citizen" Interview, citizen.co.za. June 11, 2013.

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• We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

  Pauline Hanson

  Country, World, Firsts

  Pauline Hanson's maiden speech to the House of Representatives in the Australian Federal Government, www.sbs.com.au. September 10, 1996.

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• What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Government, House

  "Harper appears open to working with Bloc in 2004 CBC interview". Interview with Evan Solomon, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 05, 2008.

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• After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

  Jim Harrison

  Travel, Reality, Perception

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• To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Mean, Hair, Ties

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• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

  George Herbert

  Glasses, Alcohol, Drink

  'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Past, Intellectual, Energy

  "He's all the rage". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

  Bill Hicks

  Inspirational, Funny, Eye

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• Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

  "Hans Hofmann: With Selected Writings by the Artist". Book by William Chapin Seitz, p. 15, 1963.

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• A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Moving

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2011

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• For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Fun, Book, Play

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• Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

  Thomas Huxley

  Assumption, Chemistry, Sometimes

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Two, Competition, Stronger

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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• Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

  Xi Jinping

  Doe, Poverty, Firsts

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• There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Moving, Training, Bulls

  Institutional Investor Interview, www.institutionalinvestor.com. June 30, 2008.

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• The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Thinking, Political

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• People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Worry, Personality

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• The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

  Jack Kemp

  Country, Development, World

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• I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, Years

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  Hans Kung

  People, Community, Understanding

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• I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Husband, Writing

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• Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

  Jessica Lange

  Successful, Years, Editors

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• There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

  Timothy Leary

  Inspiring, Memories, Long

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• Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

  Jay Leno

  Smile, Mothers Day, Mom

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• For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

  Doris Lessing

  Work, Age, Lasts

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