Thirds Quotes - Page 9

• In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for our actions, we compare ourselves to the foil of all foils, the Nazi period. It's a quest for moral certainty by saying, "Even if we're not doing great these days, at least we're not the Third Reich." Which can be consoling or alarmist. There's always a present-day agenda behind it.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Moving, Views, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.

  Jared Huffman

  Wine, Marijuana, California Coast

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

  Katy Butler

  Political, Care, End Of Life

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.

  Peter Greenaway

  Mistake, People, Giving

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• Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Diversity, Three

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it's like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it's almost like men can have three films in a row that don't do that well and keep on going.

  Julie Delpy

  Mean, Men, Three

  "Round table: Julie Delpy, Ava DuVernay and Leslye Headland on directing". Interview with Nicole Sperling, articles.latimes.com. August 10, 2012.

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• You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Firsts, Remember, Fourth

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• Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?

  Jay Nordlinger

  Hands, Nuclear, World

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• If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Giving, Effort

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• There's nothing tough about playing Third. All a guy needs is a strong arm and a strong chest.

  Frankie Frisch

  Strong, Guy, Needs

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• Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.

  Romany Malco

  Running, Order, Names

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?"

  DJ Shadow

  Party, Artist, Stores

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Running, Talking, Weather

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.

  Ted Gup

  Administration, Degrees, Natural

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's father] drew his power from the first really important al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir, who was executed by Saddam in 1980, together with his sister. So it's really a family of martyrs, and that's why Muqtada suddenly emerged from nowhere with the fall of Saddam.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Religious, Father, Fall

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, Talking, Impact

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it.

  Liza Featherstone

  Mean, Half, Pay

  "Selling Women Short". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2005.

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• The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.

  Ronald Lauder

  War, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.

  Bassam Tibi

  Giving Up, Islamic, Farewell

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Artist, Want, Firsts

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  Wavy Gravy

  Cheer, Pain, Kids

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• Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

  Cass McCombs

  Weight, Opinion, Third Person

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• One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.

  Frank Knight

  Team, Block, Play

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• The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us.

  Mike Bickle

  Weakness, Calling, Want

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