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“I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.”

People Thinking World Enough America Given Information Thirds Third World

“After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.”

Firsts Said Hard Whole Running Dies Thirds Genre

Author:Bruce Willis

“Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.”

World Two Work Poor Poverty Percent Thirds Property Income Poorest

Book:The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91

Source: The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91

“There's only three major elements. Air, land, which is your flesh and water, which is your blood. You're walking on a third of yourself. She's called Mother Earth. She gave birth to your ass. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, your maggot food ass going right back to her!”

Earth Mother Three Water Air Blood Land Birth Walking Elements Majors Thirds Flesh Ass Dust Ashes Mother Earth Maggots Dust To Dust

Author:Eddie Griffin

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.”

Ifs Done Mom Thirds My Mom This Life If I Could

Author:Brittany Murphy

“By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.”

Years Shows Law Order Five Wall Thirds Five Years Contracts Climbing Hiking Law And Order

Author:Chris Noth

“I remember dreaming about it, about being on TV. I remember seeing Children of a Lesser God on Broadway. I was sitting in the second or third row, and I was just so blown away, and I walked out saying, ‘That’s what I want to do.’”

Want Children Dream Remember Seeing Tvs Sitting Thirds Broadway Blown Away

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.”

Needs Firsts I Can Play Thirds Balls Quitting Stealing Score

Author:Mickey Mantle

“First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast — that means you're a professional.”

Firsts Wells Mean Thirds Parkour

Author:David Belle

“First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”

Firsts Two Hands Three Numbers Five Four Holy Thirds Sight Foe Pins Counting Naughty Grenade Holy Grail Monty Snuff Number Three Antioch Galahad

Author:Michael Palin

“I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life”

Years Two Thirds Eight British London

Author:Devon Aoki

“The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories that I want to tell. And I feel that just being a female director and doing that is a big deal in this country. On my third movie I worked with a French DP. I asked him has he ever worked with a woman director before? He said in France a third of directors are women; so you can’t avoid them. So I realized that the US is behind.”

People Want Needs Feels Said Country Stories Bigs Challenges Rooms Deals Behinds Type Directors Female Thirds I Realized France Just Being Big Deal

Author:Kasi Lemmons

“We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.”

People Knows Want Looks Goal Our Lives Figures College Thirds Chapters

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.”

Ifs Knows Stills Alive Thirds Trilogies

Author:George Lucas

“Each time I do a trilogy it's ten years out of my life. I'll finish Episode III and I'll be 60. And the next 20 years after that I want to spend doing something other than Star Wars. If at 80 I'm still lively and having a good time and think I can work for another 10 years between 80 and 90, I might consider it. But don't count on it. There's nothing written, and it's not like I'm completing something. I'd have to start from scratch. The idea of a third trilogy was more of a media thing than it was me.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Stills I Can Ideas War Might Next Stars Written Media Ten Thirds Good Times Episodes Scratches Having A Good Time Lively Completing Trilogies

Author:George Lucas

“One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.”

Able Film Happened Identity Discipline Thirds Fourth

Author:George Lucas

“I felt that one of the major issues in the third film is that Luke is finally on his own and has to fight Vader and the Emperor by himself. If you get a sense that Yoda or Ben is there to help him or to somehow influence him, it diminishes the power of the scene.”

Ifs Helping Film Fighting Felt Issues Influence Scene Majors Thirds Diminish Emperor Luke Vader

Author:George Lucas

“The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.”

Way Firsts Littles Book Done Stories Three Bits Process Involved Little Bit Thirds Series Meant To Be Candy

Author:Lauren Conrad

“I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe.”

Trying Believe Said Eye School Remember Laughing Safe High School Thirds Mad Glasses Umpires

Author:Peter Falk

“My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day, and do the best that I can do. I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working, and lucky to be working.”

Stills I Can Hard Guy Can Do Generations Hard Work Lucky Thirds California Looking Good Do The Best Californians Good Looking Guys

Author:Scott Eastwood

“You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you; beautiful thing is, you get the last word. You can spin it any way you want to…If you can go third person on yourself, you can sit down and have a 10-15 minute conversation.”

Ifs Way Want Littles Persons Lasts Beautiful Asks Bits Minutes Media Figures Conversation Little Bit Thirds Down And Endure Beautiful Things Last Words Third Person

Author:Warren Sapp

“We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.”

Inspirational Needs Important Matter Funny Remember Thirds Working It Recreation What's Important Waffles Leslie Parks And Recreation Parks And Rec

Author:Amy Poehler

“It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.”

Years Made Christian Guy Easy Thirds Made It Atmosphere Veteran Pondering Quarterback

Author:Bill Cowher

“I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.”

Wells Looks Two Different Done Character Interesting Quality Scene Thirds Screenplays Arcs Variables

Author:William Baldwin

“I had a buddy of mine call up the other day, all upset 'cause he slept with his third cousin. And I'm like, Man, if it upsets you that much, quit countin' them!”

Ifs Men Causes Mines Thirds Quitting Upset Cousin Buddy

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.”

People Firsts Littles Guy Asks Quality Tough Thirds Stood Up Bobby Kennedy

Author:Emilio Estevez

“I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.”

Ifs Firsts Father Trouble Advice Thirds Insult Insults You

Author:John Wayne

“I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Remember Interesting Talking Path Majors Thirds University Comedian Indifference Germany Historian Holocaust Remember When Auschwitz Apathetic Interesting Ideas

Author:Sacha Baron Cohen

“Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.”

Firsts Two Important Wealth Forget Five Thirds Important Things Things In Life Most Important Things In Life

Author:Chuck Berry

“In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.”

Real Middle Hollywood Thirds Magician Earthquakes Talkies

Author:Conrad Veidt

“I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.”

People Looks Numbers Quality Honesty Respect Thirds Loyalty Characteristics

Author:Summer Altice

“If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.”

Ifs Years Lines Draws Mouths Thirds Conclusion

Author:Bronson Pinchot

“I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.”

Models Thirds Athlete Actresses Lists

Author:Serena Williams

“When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.”

World Actors Stars Dying Thirds Starting Episodes Cowboy

Author:Bruce Dern

“I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.”

“Indians love to travel with their families, and they bring along everything including the kitchen and cooking utensils. Third-class coaches are always filled to capacity with people literally hanging out of the windows.”

People Class Capacity Window Thirds Cooking Filled Including Coaches Kitchen Hanging Out Utensils

Author:Volkmar Wentzel

“People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third”

People Firsts Problem Thirds Corruption Nigeria

Author:Atiku Abubakar

“We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air, and particularly happy that we had not been hit ourselves. Of course, I tell myself in quiet moments today: 'You've killed. In order to protect others and not be killed yourself.' But in the end: for what? The Third Reich trained 30,000 pilots. Ten thousand survived the war. One-third. This is the highest loss rate along with the U-boat sailors.”

Thinking War Ends Moments Today Order Courses Loss Air Proud Victory Thousand Quiet Protect Ten Highest Thirds Killing Rate Boat Pilots Survived Sailor Quiet Moments

Author:Gunther Rall

“If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one, and if you own two homes buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy a home.”

Ifs Two Home Thirds Realtors Two Homes

Author:John Paulson

“What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.”

“People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.”

People Feels Body Movement Emotional Degrees Skins Thirds Agony Lacking Borderline Personality Disorders

Author:Marsha M. Linehan

“I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.”

Thinking Wells Persons Sometimes Needed Shots Thirds Balls Hot Tonight Quarters Pointers

Author:Shawn Marion

“Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care”

Firsts Wells Persons Care Three Love Is Emotion Events Behavior Thirds Well Being Motive Mutual Momentary Biochemistry Positive Emotions

Book:Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection

Source: Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection

“One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.”

Source: Stone Age Economics

“The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two- thirds of deaths, much sickness and ill health, resulting in an unsustainable burden on our fragile economies.”

Two Economy Worst Disease Thirds Responsible Ill Burden Sickness Regions Affected Fragile Epidemics Caribbean Ill Health

Author:Freundel Stuart

“Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.”

Wells Actors Forget Thirds Paid Males Credit Being A Woman

Author:Kangana Ranaut

“So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?”

World Two Huge Thirds Spending Our World Excess Obesity Calories

Book:Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

“I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.”

Way Helping Kids School Reading Bits Thirds Grades Unusual Classroom Bothered After School Third Grade

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.”

Giving Looks Problem Party Thirds Investigation Incidents Expertise Third Parties

Author:James Hunt

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