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“For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.”

Years Two Bigs Tree Thirds Woods Driving California Harvest Pickups Northern California

Author:Nick Offerman

“One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.”

Stills Done Bigs Night Wish Voice Singing Standing Thirds Guitar Tickets Disturbing Avenues One Night Policemen Strolling

Author:Frank Stallone

“My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.”

Bigs Break Thirds Grades Monkeys Third Grade

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?”

Bigs Growth Levels Economy Thirds Raises West University Infrastructure Rivals Harvard Big Questions Harvard University

Author:Richard Attias

“The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.”

People Wells Ends Reason Enough Bigs Today America Young Three Social Support Trouble Security Thirds Workers Abortion Pregnancy Social Security America Today

Author:Rick Santorum

“The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.”

Mean Ideas Bigs Sin Security Thirds Confession Trusted Declaration Spouse Shortcomings Big Ideas

Book:Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life

Source: Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life

“I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in this big sea of iniquity and negativity.”

People Bigs Millions Sea Negative Thirds Negativity Negative Thoughts Iniquity Third Time

Author:Jack LaLanne

“These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.”

Knows Enough Bigs Sports Company Generations Thirds Size Currents Spectrum

Author:Steve Largent

“Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.”

People Looks Bigs Guy Literature Thirds Debate Journalist Clock Gore

Author:Chris Matthews

“I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.”

Book Bigs Passion Grows Growing Up Player Childhood Baseball Thirds Cards Comic Grades Comic Book My Passion Collecting Fanatics Baseball Player Third Grade Baseball Cards

Author:Alan Ritchson

“One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half of our kids still have environmental tobacco smoke exposure when environmental tobacco smoke is known to be associated with sudden infant death syndrome, with ear infections, respiratory infections and the rest. If we had to pick something to really go after, that would be one that I would really argue is an extraordinarily high priority and something people can actually do something about.”

“I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real love for it, and to really, when I say take it seriously, quote 'seriously', I mean not patronize it. It's a big mistake to patronize it and think it's a third rate medium, because it's not, it's a great art form.”

Thinking Mean Art Real Bigs Form Mistake Thirds Cameras Rate Mediums Real Love Great Art Big Mistake

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Energy Engineering started first in IIT Kharagpur in 1983 and mine was the third batch. It was definitely not a popular course. It was basically an amalgamation of nuclear, mechanical, chemical engineering, etc. But I don't think it was a big factor because if we look, most of them joined the IT sectors and not the energy sector.”

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Author:Ramon Magsaysay

“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.”

Play Bigs Team Special Fields Position Thirds Block Score Special Teams

Author:Frank Knight

“For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.”

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Author:Ira Glass

“All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.”

“There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the middle of the cold Atlantic Ocean. That would've seduced me as a teen reader. Second, It is full of beautiful but killer horses being trained for a dangerous race. Actually, that would've seduced me as a teen reader as well. At third it involves a very repressed love story with a very Mr. Darcy-like love interest.”

“It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make one-third of the money?" My answer is that I'm trying to do it ethically. What does that mean, exactly? That conflict is a big part of my art.”

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Author:Ben Sollee

“You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we make the entire continent of Africa look like the size of the United States, which is why a lot of people don't know that Africa is a continent. They think it's a country because it looks as big as we do.”

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Author:Baron Vaughn

“I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.”

Bigs Lying My Friends Thirds Indian Grades Princess Fourth Phases Fourth Grade Les Mis

Author:Laura Benanti

“There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were only allowed to sit down at the end of the table for the cognac. This is not possible now.”

Men Ends Bigs Remember Artist Interesting Sitting Thirds Tables Studios Dinner Convinced Very Interesting Gallery Dressed Up Waiter Cognac

Author:Erro

“The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in measurement. And third, it is a point of view, or philosophy, about how decisions will be-and perhaps should be-made in the future”

Should Firsts Mean Made Philosophy Bigs Three Decision Views Technology Revolution Thirds Intuition Point Of View Data Phrases Decision Making Three Things Measurement Bundles

Author:Steve Lohr

“So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.”

People Ifs Bigs Enjoy Novel Generations Thirds Caring Epic Not Caring

Author:Emma Donoghue

“In my first 100 days, I'll work with both parties to make the biggest investment in good-paying jobs in decades. We'll also raise the minimum wage - a big deal for the nearly two-thirds of minimum-wageworkers who are women. And we'll give women the tools they need to fight for equal pay. This isn't just a "women's issue"т - it's an issue every American should care about, no matter their gender.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an invention of the so-called Arab system, the positional system of counting with zero dated to the eighth or ninth century.”

Bigs Century Strange Discovery Thirds Invention Gaps Zero Counting Scientific Discovery

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while having relatively small if any positive impacts on bank lending, employment, wages or economic growth, so ordinary people haven't had much help. By the third round of QE in 2012-2014, the effects had likely muted quite a bit. There were probably not big impacts on asset prices from QE and the positive effects on employment growth might have strengthened somewhat.”

“Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M. Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. "So where's the message?" "Right there." I pointed from picture to picture. "It says: Chloe, I'll be back, Simon.”

Bigs Three Left Middle Messages Letters Thirds Corners Drawing Ghost Inches Lightning Fog Signatures Bolts Chloe Schwarzenegger Lightning Bolts Salutations

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch." The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. "The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!" Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.”

Knows Said Bigs Mother Born Secret Rocks Stones Tests Thirds Ghost Cried Statues Altars Torches Guarded Annabeth Daggers Wailing

Author:Rick Riordan

“Every country gets fired up to play us. They played well. I thought when it was 2-1 that we had some chances to make it 3, 4-1. He made some saves and we just missed some shots. They got a break on their second, and the third period I thought we had a lot of chances, he made some big saves. We got it done in the shootout.”

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Author:Dany Heatley

“It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.”

Looks Ideas Real Humor Bigs Song Thirds Credit Unexpected Honey Being Real Smarter Hoaxes

Author:Elvis Presley

“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

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