Third Quotes
1961 quotes by 1550 authors
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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
— Cass McCombs
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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…
— Richard Attias
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Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable…
— Jemima Khan
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Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.
— Sara Sheridan
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Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around…
— Don Yaeger
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The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of myself in the third person. That…
— Gretchen Rubin
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
— Warren Giles
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The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward…
— George W. S. Trow
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We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish.…
— Bobby Wallace
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start…
— A. R. Rahman
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I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the…
— Trudi Canavan
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No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the…
— Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting…
— Noreena Hertz
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My real name is Alfonso. My grandfather and dad are also Alfonso, so I was the third. So my mom just gave me the nickname…
— Trey Burke
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Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca,…
— Gad Elmaleh
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My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.
— Deb Caletti
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The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths,…
— Thomas Pogge
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Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the…
— Seth Shostak
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