Thirds Quotes - Page 39

• It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

  Nile Rodgers

  Jobs, Artist, Symphony

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• Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.

  Mitt Romney

  Agreement, America, Cheat

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

  Leo Rosten

  Business, People, Firsts

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• A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Acceptance, Kissing

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.27, Litres

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• Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

  Kevin Rudd

  Compassion, Australia, Resilience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

  Rita Rudner

  Dancer, Pirouettes, Firsts

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• What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Imagination, Firsts

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• The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Two, Three

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• Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

  Bernie Sanders

  New York, Hands, Two

  Fed Conflicts, www.sanders.senate.gov. June 11, 2012.

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• I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

  Gus Van Sant

  Change, Thinking, Talking

  "Set reports from The Last Samurai! Tom Savini speaks about The Dead! Spider-man 2's Doc Ock! Plus a ton more". Moviehole Interview, movieweb.com. February 08, 2003.

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• In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.

  Rick Santorum

  Running, Years, President

  Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

  Jose Saramago

  Mistake, School, Writing

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• The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophical, Poetic, Rhetorical

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• When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Home, Italian

  "Starbucks at 40: Java juggernaut branches out". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 10, 2011.

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• My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

  Jill Scott

  Records, Firsts, Wiz

  Interview with James Walsh, www.mtv.co.uk. June 27, 2012.

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  I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

  Ayrton Senna

  Winning

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• When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

  Ayrton Senna

  Winning, Second Chance, Race

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• And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

  Martin Sheen

  Self, World Suffering, People

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• When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

  Huston Smith

  Christianity, Made, Found

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November, 1997.

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• If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Two

  Lysander Spooner (1847). “The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second”, p.8

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• In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Boys, Garbage Cans, Desks

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'Talking'". Book edited by John W. Duffy, 2004.

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• I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

  Jon Stewart

  Awards, Host, Charm

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fiction, Babylon 5, Chains

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

  Matthew Sweet

  Birthday, Party, Dykes

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• Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

  Barry Switzer

  Life, Motivational, Sports

  "The Unknown Barry Switzer - Poverty, Tragedy Build Oklahoma Coach into a Winner". Chicago Tribune, December 14, 1986.

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