Thirds Quotes - Page 40

• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  Ice T

  Mother, Father, Aunt

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• When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

  Daniel Tammet

  Math, Thinking, Two

  "A genius explains" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

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• There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

  Chuck Tanner

  Leadership, Patience, Secret

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• I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

  Helen Thomas

  Country, Israel, Criticize

  "Helen Thomas: 'Baloney. I've Never Been Anti-Semitic. I'm a Semite'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 12, 2010.

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• Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Money, Business

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Party, Gossip, Conversation

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• You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

  Jesse Ventura

  Party, Groups, Problem

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• I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Party, Government, Support

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• Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Years, Cynical

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• Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Christian, Believe, Two

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• Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

  Rachel Weisz

  Country, Believe, Hollywood

  'I'm a storyteller. I don't save lives', www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2005.

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• We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Color, Islands

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• I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

  William Allen White

  Two, People, Giving

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• One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

  Bradley Whitford

  Issues, Talking, Giving

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• Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

  E. O. Wilson

  Two, Ants, Insects

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• My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.

  Fred Wilson

  Years, Careers, Long

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• I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

  Steven Wright

  Art, Guitar, Drawing

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• I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Real, Feelings, Texture

  "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.

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• There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Friends, People, Political

  "The Struggle for Russia". Book by Boris Yeltsin, 1994.

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• 'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Immigration, Elysium, World

  "Immersed in Movies: Neill Blomkamp Talks ‘Elysium,’ Sci-Fi, VFX" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. August 6, 2013.

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• There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, Interesting, Elysium

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

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• Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.

  Geoff Mulgan

  War, Groups, World

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Order, Two, People

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• It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

  Colm Toibin

  Book, Important, Fourth

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• He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Football, Clouds, Blue

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