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“On the third Friday of each month, I go to the Andy Griffith Museum. I get to meet hundreds of fans who stand in long lines for hours to meet me. Some months I don't feel too good and I think maybe I won't go, but then when I go and get to be there with so many wonderful people it always lifts my spirits and makes me feel better. I wouldn't stand in line for hours to meet me, but I'm so glad my fans do.”

People Thinking Feels Long Spirit Hours Lines Wonderful Fans Months Thirds Glad Lifts Museums Feel Better Friday Long Lines Make Me Feel Better Each Month

Author:Betty Lynn

“One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.”

People Country Felt Fate Perspective Thirds Meetings Ill

Book:The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

Source: The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

“If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.”

People Ifs Firsts Humans Human Beings Thirds Folks Singers Labels Pacifist

Author:Joan Baez

“People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.”

People Worry Personality Concern Thirds Determined Mood Fourth Second Place

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.”

People Ifs Helping Would Be Mother Steps Four Childhood Needed Degrees Thirds Seven Loyalty Sibling Vary Closeness

Author:Ann Patchett

“I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.”

People World Giving Shows Wanted Young Percent Thirds Good Things Population Awful Plus Platforms Doing Good Third World

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“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 a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible bestiality of the Orient.”

“You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.”

People Thinking Knows Want Firsts May Has Beens Reason Asks Millions Rich Streets Wall Return Trump Couple Taxes Thirds Claims Paid Release Charitable Dealings Tax Returns Federal Taxes

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.”

People Way Needs Two Different Helping Passion Fun Childhood Type Percent Areas Thirds Addiction Definitions Illness Trauma Punishment Mental Illness Severe Better Ways Coping

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.”

People Thinking Want Writing Book Thirds Talk To Me

Author:Frederick Busch

“People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.”

“What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.”

“As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.”

People Shows Party Half Democracy Thirds Agree Agendas Listeners Showing Up Third Parties

Author:Ralph Nader

“When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war. If you pull in Europeans, Canadians, people from around the Third World, the war was vastly unpopular. But even half of Americans by 1968 opposed the war.”

People Ifs World Said War Half Thirds Vietnam Arrested Opposing Third World

Author:Bill Ayers

“I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.”

“I've found great virtue in two-thirds of the way into the message; right before I'm really want to nail home a point, pausing to tell a joke or to tell a light-hearted story, because I know my audience has been working with me now for 20 or 25 minutes. And if I can get them to laugh, get oxygen into their system, it wakes up those who might be sleeping, so there's something about using a story to draw people back in right before you drive home your final point. In that case I think it's real legitimate just to use a story for story's sake.”

“I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship in the black community. Right now, in Harlem, if I wanted to get a shoe repaired, I would have a hard time finding a black shoe repairman. On near about every third corner, you could find a decent black barber, decent black laundry, had restaurants in the neighborhood that were open 24 hours. The food was good at 3 o'clock in the morning as at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.”

“In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.”

People Ifs Men Years Country Three Courses Black Teaching Century Produce Percent Thirds Caught Fifty Grades Forty Black People Three Years 19th Century Signatures Third Grade Penmanship

Author:Robert Hass

“Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.”

People Years May Said Order Acting Cases Worry Cutting Car Possibility Years Ago Thirds Bigger Iraq Debate Genuine Bread Secure Gas Afghanistan Dozen Invasion Shrinking Insisting Petrol

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.”

People Firsts Turns Century Percent Thirds Twenties Income Poorest

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.”

People Party Policy Promise Vote Thirds Predecessors Third Parties

Author:Edward Snowden

“People don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational marijuana are now legal. Two-thirds of the country. I am looking at it as kind of a 10th Amendment, states'-rights issue.”

People Kind Two Country States Realizing United United States Issues Rights Thirds Population Medical Marijuana Amendments States Rights

Author:John Hickenlooper

“It's not as "cheap" as it's put out to be. One predator drone in one day of activity supposedly needs 168 people... to carry out the day's operations... They crash a lot. So when you calculate their costs, consider that the Air Force has said about a third of their drones have crashed.”

People Needs Said Force Air One Day Cost Activity Thirds Operations Crash Predator Air Force Drones

Author:Medea Benjamin

“A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.”

“My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.”

“The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our people, those responsible for the plundering of the third world. Silence is also part of repression.”

“There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as he got out of jail. That's a third world reaction and they understand it. Cuba played an enormous role in the liberation of Africa and the overthrow of Apartheid, sending doctors and teachers to the poorest places in the world, to Haiti, to Pakistan after the earthquake, almost everywhere. The internationalism is just astonishing. I don't think there has been anything like it in history.”

“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'”

“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.”

“The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.”

People World Giving Two Poverty Military Cost Percent Thirds Population Billions Budgets Collectives Rough World Population Us Military Military Budget

Author:Thomas Pogge

“I think we go wrong when we insist, as some have done since 1945, on using experts who are paid Western salaries, drive beautiful cars and live in air-conditioned houses to teach people in the Third World how to improve their living conditions.”

People Thinking World Done Beautiful House Teach Air Conditions Car Thirds Paid Western Experts Salary Third World Living Conditions

Author:Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

“And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.”

People Thinking World Want Country Use Changed Thirds Developing Polite Third World Developing Countries World Music Developed Country Third World Countries Being Polite

Author:Miriam Makeba

“When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.”

People Accepting Stage Ready Thirds

Author:Joni Mitchell

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

People Firsts Business Thirds Rate Second Rate

Author:Leo Rosten

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.”

People Men Children Said Two Hands Remember Parent Thirds Defense Zone Two Hands

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)”

People Mean Said Stills Lasts House President White Pay Attention Half Drink Empty Thirds Glasses Dinner White House President Bush Liquid Half Empty

Author:Stephen Colbert

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