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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.”

People World Self Suffering Culture Focus Impossible Right Now Thirds Focused Third World Showing Up World Suffering

Author:Martin Sheen

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

Made Seems Found Christianity Thirds Grades Worldview Vedanta Profundity Third Grade

Author:Huston Smith

“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.”

Ifs Men Two Individual Natural Justice Rights Thirds Murder Commit Contracts Void Theft Robbery Natural Rights Unlawful Natural Justice

Book:The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second

Source: The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second

“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.”

Said Boys Mass Thirds Distinction Grades Priests Desks Garbage Altars Nun Knocked Down Third Grade Garbage Cans

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“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.”

Thirds Charm Awards Host Academy Academy Awards Third Time

Author:Jon Stewart

“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.”

Humans Universe Fiction Thirds Science Fiction Series Bottom Chains Food Chain Babylon Babylon 5

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“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.”

Shows Party Stage Mines Mets Thirds Birthday Spokes Vans Wilson Brian Birthday Party Third Time Dykes

Author:Matthew Sweet

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

People Thinking Life Motivational Sports Born Football Baseball Thirds Bases Hitting Famous Baseball Humility And Modesty

Author:Barry Switzer

“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.”

Mother Father Thirds Grades Los Angeles Aunt Third Grade

Author:Ice T

“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.”

Thinking Two Together Answers Numbers Shapes Thirds Math Evolve Imagery Mental Imagery

Author:Daniel Tammet

“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.”

Firsts Important Three Leadership Secret Thirds Patience Patient Be Patient Having Patience Dirty Secrets

Author:Chuck Tanner

“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.”

Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal

“I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.”

People Firsts Kind I Can Wanted Hate Ability Brain Wonder Focus Fronts Easier Thirds I Hate Lays Fourth Superhero Rough Drafts

Author:Judy Blume

“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.”

Said Party Havens Conversation Thirds Gossip Malice Mindless Third Parties

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“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.”

Problem Happens Party Groups Thirds Stereotype Fringe Third Parties

Author:Jesse Ventura

“If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.”

Ifs Would Be Imagination Race Mankind Emotional Equal Thirds Intelligent Equality Stable Imaginative Select Energetic Presenting Different Cultures Cultural Diversity

Book:Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

“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.”

Government Political Party Support Movement Thirds Political Parties Third Parties

Author:Jesse Ventura

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

Years School Students Thirds Medical Conversion Cynical Clinicals Medical School Medical Education

Author:Abraham Verghese

“In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.”

Values Courses Pleasure Study Teacher Singing Thirds Opera Colleagues Preparing Testimony Collecting Millennium Thesis Opera Singing

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“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!”

Ifs World Believe Wells Two Christian Literature Heaven Christ Thirds Claims Catholic Don't Believe Population Paradigm

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

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

World Believe Wells Country Hollywood Thirds Don't Believe Behave Crew Third World Third World Countries

Author:Rachel Weisz

“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.”

World Looks Wanted Artist Steps Color Paper Gold Thirds Add Stuck Teeth Islands Cigarette Pirate Third World

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

People Giving Two Three Teach Thirds Dollars Kicks

Author:William Allen White

“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.”

Giving Moments Seems Talking Issues Heard Victory Thirds Election Debate Substance Presidential Als Surreal Gore Talking Heads Surreal Moments

Author:Bradley Whitford

“According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.”

Generations Percent Thirds Administration Marijuana Small Business Business Administration

Author:Christopher Bond

“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.”

Knows Two Millions Thirds Species Organisms Insects Ants Biomass

Author:E. O. Wilson

“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.”

Years Firsts Long Has Beens Used Three Careers Internet Thirds Investment Investing Firm Software Bubbles Phases Venture Mobile Euclid

Author:Fred Wilson

“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.”

Firsts Art Creative Comedy Draws Thirds Paint Guitar Drawing Abstract Grades Abstract Art Third Grade

Author:Steven Wright

“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.”

Want Real Feelings Alive Subjects Objects Thirds Dimensions Texture Realness Real Feelings

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“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.”

People Firsts Political Suffering Politics Friends Politician Ordinary Thirds Profession Temptation Ruins Ordinary Life No Friends

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“'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.”

World Firsts Thirds Metaphor Immigration Suits Scenarios Third World Apartheid Elysium District 9

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“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.”

World Firsts Made Ideas Wealth Interesting Fiction Thirds Science Fiction Metaphor Separation Mess Really Interesting Third World Discrepancies Interesting Ideas Elysium Johannesburg

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“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.”

World War Groups Members Thirds Meetings Committed Active Violent France War Of The Worlds Republic Founders Supporter Fascists Second World War Cosmetics Headquarters

Author:Geoff Mulgan

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

Important Book Thirds Fourth Publishers

Author:Colm Toibin

“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.”

Ifs Different Enjoy Water White Effects Football Tests Thirds Weight Blue Clouds Size Surface Ice Bubbles Thick Purple Baths Jet Arcs Amused And Off Foam Hovering Bubble Bath

Author:J. K. Rowling

“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”

Thinking Writing Humans Persons Young Wise Female Thirds Males Silly Innocent Narrators Young And Old Third Person Old And Wise

Author:Philip Pullman

“The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity--to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,"How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with?" When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.”

Humans Helping Use Spiritual Law Humanity Asks Human Beings Ability Talent Unique Thirds Fellows Contact Components Dharma Service To Humanity Unique Talents

Book:The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

“(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.”

World Heart Country Sides Despair Thirds Engaged Quantity Gross Third World Hope And Despair Third World Countries

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")”

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

Men May Doe Two Today Fall Groups Thirds Slave Officials Scholar Businessman Statesmen Free Man

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart.”

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.”

Ifs Used Emotion Sacrifice Offers Thirds Anger Angry Cures Used To Be Thirty Fourth Anger Management

Author:Epictetus

“Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?”

Knows Men Looks Together Sides White Walks Walking Thirds Brown Beside You Gliding Waste Land

Author:T. S. Eliot

“R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases

“Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.”

Looks Book Hands Eye Earth Night Left Sides Millions Sun Thirds This Day Day And Night Filters Through The Eyes Spectre Through My Eyes Earth And Sun

Author:Walt Whitman

“I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.”

“…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.”

Moments Remember Speak Felt Easy Water Imagination Perfect Our Lives Return Thirds Moved Instinct Broke Fourth Tranquility My Imagination Covenant Exhilaration Visitation Porpoises

Author:Pat Conroy

“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.”

Thinking Want Real Ends Lasts Death Found President Wife Cry Shots Thirds Spokes Last Words American President Mckinley

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“Third time pays for all”

Pay Thirds Third Time

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

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