Best Three Strikes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”

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Author:Michel Foucault

“Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.”

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Author:Buddy Guy

“Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.”

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Author:Satchel Paige

“The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.”

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Author:Frank Rich

“So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. You think it isn’t true? The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.”

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Author:Snoop Dogg

“The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.”

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Author:Zakk Wylde

“Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.”

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Author:Bill Veeck

“When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.”

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Author:LL Cool J

“The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.”

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Author:Satchel Paige

“I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.”

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Author:Pitbull

“Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.”

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Book:Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

“Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.”

“Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.”

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Book:Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”

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Author:Jeremiah Wright

“Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.”

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Author:Tony La Russa

“We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.”

“Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.”

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Author:Stevie Wonder

“The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.”

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Author:William Kristol