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“When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.”

Next Games Winning Race Hair Ten Thirds Rounds Olympic Games

Author:Apolo Ohno

“In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.”

Two Humor Choices Fighting Situation Laughing Modern Mankind Offers Thirds Crisis Alternatives Modern Times Two Choices Prehistoric Times Of Crisis Prehistoric Times

Book:2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing

Source: 2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing

“He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.”

Real Reason Thirds Tyranny Titles Rebel Tyrants Defence Defenders

Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.”

“When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Two Thirds Alternatives

Author:Shimon Peres

“I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics.”

People Giving Helping Huge Thirds Spending Reform Entitlement Rail Entitlement Programs

Author:Rick Perry

“I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.”

People Ifs Giving I Can Book Ideas Sometimes Deals Cases Study Thirds Give Me Response Very Good These Days Good Ideas Kindles Case Studies

Author:Tom Peters

“Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third...”

Knows Firsts Team Thirds Teamwork

Author:Bud Abbott

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”

Source: Gone to Soldiers: A Novel

“In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.”

People Knows Want Years Sound Five Self Esteem Thirds Down And Sticks Inspired Albums Finished Settling Five Years Mum Settling Down

Author:Adele

“Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.”

Said Use Might Force Party Violence Thirds Technique Territory Monopoly Reduction Third Parties Hobbes Use Of Force Leviathan

Author:Steven Pinker

“Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.”

Might Enjoy Party Enemy Support Movement Thirds Violent Tactics Thug Pretext Retaliation Mayhem Third Parties

Author:Steven Pinker

“As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.”

Giving Church Religious Members Percent Thirds Institutions Income Magazines Contribution Romney Charitable Tithe Charitable Giving

Author:John Podhoretz

“Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.”

Years Film Actors Understanding Dark Keys Birth Thirds Genre Features Movie Superhero Craving Knights Nolan

Author:John Podhoretz

“Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.”

Ifs Knows Giving Children School Asks Behinds Teacher Ready Thirds Grades Officers Not Ready Third Grade

Author:Colin Powell

“Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.”

Firsts Persons Literature Clear Thirds Cameras Objectives Subjective Objectivity First Person Hitchcock Narrators

Author:Manuel Puig

“Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.”

Christian Successful Ethics Thirds Historical Islam East Versions Ethical Moderates Sequence Monotheism Christian Ethics

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Trying Today America Literature Born Thirds Tired Hearing Quarters America Today

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.”

Source: Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America

“Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.”

Thirds Carolina Rail Barbecue North Carolina

Book:Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

Source: Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.”

Thinking Knows Important Stories Beautiful Film Choices Truth Is Cost Consequence Thirds Scary Cinema Theme Larry Andrew Motifs

Author:Keanu Reeves

“'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.”

Years Ideas Self Sacrifice Findings Thirds Overcoming Trauma Coffee Cups Finding Love Coffee Cup Old Self

Author:Jason Reitman

“Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Made Film Three Audience Thirds Theater Editing Toronto Premieres Birthplace Birth Place

Author:Jason Reitman

“I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.”

World Said Young House White Forget Standing Thirds Trade Planes White House Never Forget Desks September Assistants Pentagon World Trade World Trade Center

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.”

Thinking World Children Country Fool Thirds Third World Third World Countries

Author:Joan Rivers

“I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.”

Stories School Written Office Thirds Newspapers Grades Senior Juniors Edited Appalachia

Author:Tom Robbins

“Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.”

Firsts Drink Thirds Drinking Alcohol Cocktails Skip Drinking Alcohol Great Drinking Funny Alcohol Great Alcohol Cocktail Drinks Drinking With Friends

Author:Knute Rockne

“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.”

People Feels Firsts Jobs Artist Support Thirds Sat Chairs Symphony Great Artist

Author:Nile Rodgers

“One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.”

People Two States United United States Thirds

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.”

Two Practice Thirds Communism Explanation Communism And Socialism

Book:The Will Rogers book

Source: The Will Rogers book

“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?”

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

America Nations Consequence Thirds Trade Agreement Cheat Forging Trade Agreements

Author:Mitt Romney

“First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.”

People Firsts Business Thirds Rate Second Rate

Author:Leo Rosten

“Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.”

Firsts Character Actors Impossible Thirds Raised Betrayal Cease Betray Betrayed Curtains Disappoint

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

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

Values Nations Compassion Thirds Resilience Australia Great Value

Author:Kevin Rudd

“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.”

Firsts Position Thirds Dancer Basics Pirouettes

Author:Rita Rudner

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

Firsts Art Artist Imagination Industry Weak Thirds Tenderness Sensibility Great Artist

Author:Salman Rushdie

“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.”

Art Two Sometimes Three Amount Equal Thirds Plus Works Of Art Alchemy Artwork

Author:Jerry Saltz

“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.”

Two Hands New York Directors Thirds Feds Bankers

Author:Bernie Sanders

“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.”

Thinking Ideas Change Talking Thirds Setting Settings Punk Remakes Psycho Rockers

Author:Gus Van Sant

“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.”

Knows Years Running Lasts Lost President Figures Republican Six Thirds Election Constant Conservative Campaigns Horrible President Bush Pennsylvania Ranking Election Years

Author:Rick Santorum

“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.”

Writing Years Done School Mistake Class Thirds Primaries Fourth Pupils Spelling Primary School Spelling Mistakes

Author:Jose Saramago

“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?”

Thirds Philosophical Poetic Rhetorical

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“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.”

Firsts Home America Vision Industry Thirds Coffee Bars Italian Starbucks Places To Go Specialty Espresso Third Place

Author:Howard Schultz

“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!”

Firsts Shows Records Heard Influence Thirds Grades Amazing Things Most Amazing Soundtracks Diana Third Grade Wiz

Author:Jill Scott

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

Author:Ayrton Senna

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

Enough Winning Race Car Thirds Racing Second Chance Race Car Auto Racing Formula 1 Third Place

Author:Ayrton Senna

“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”

Two Hands Government Politics Peace Thirds Unions International Pockets Thieves Alliances Plunder

Author:Ambrose Bierce