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• The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.

  Charles Koch

  Hurt, Average, Use

  "Charles Koch on the 2016 race, climate change and whether he has too much power". Interview with Matea Gold, www.washingtonpost.com. August 4, 2015.

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• Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same.

  Kevin Kline

  Independent, Sacrifice, Trying

  "Kevin Kline Talks DARLING COMPANION, Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS, and His Oscar Short with Mike Myers". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Horse, Pie, Three

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• Working with passion is an engine that is unbelievable. A person with drive and passion does three times the job of another person. But it is not so much the quantity of the job; that is not the point. The point is that they draw crowds; they have followers; they push, and lead, and so achieve much more.

  Dov Seidman

  Jobs, Passion, Crowds

  Dov Seidman (2011). “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything”, p.295, John Wiley & Sons

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• The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

  Douglas Adams

  Three, World, Form

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.85, Del Rey

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• The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.

  Robert Benchley

  Summer, Night, Air

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.43, Glendower Media

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• I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

  Anna Held

  Life, Awards, Tears

  "Luise Rainer, double Oscar winner, dies aged 104". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.

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• I don't do any crazy diets. I take vitamins and eat three times a day.

  Selena

  Crazy, Three, Vitamins

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• Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
  and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Player, Long

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• There are three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon-when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.

  Borden Chase

  Jobs, Children, Crazy

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• From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

  Homaro Cantu

  Dad, Wind, Age

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• I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  Two, Training, Weight

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• Modifying ourselves is a natural process because we are a product of nature and what we do is a product of nature. Therefore, if one day we have three time bigger brain and two hearts instead of one (because one is not enough) then this is all part of nature.

  Jean-Marie Lehn

  Heart, Two, Brain

  Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

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• There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.

  Rita Gelman

  Kids, Years, Upset

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• The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.

  Milton Friedman

  Independence, Three, Firsts

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• I love dancing to Latin music, so I have a trainer who dances with me for an hour three times a week.

  Sofia Vergara

  Latin, Dancing, Three

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• It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Want, Example

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• The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

  Ian Brown

  Years, Two, Three

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.

  Robert Mankoff

  Three, Married, Has Beens

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, keranews.org. December 4, 2015.

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• What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.

  Mark Pesce

  Civilization, Three, Millions

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• If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

  Shimon Peres

  Wise, Three, Fats

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• A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair?

  Henny Youngman

  Husband, Fall, Home

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• Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water.

  Phyllis Diller

  Water, Three, Oar

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• I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.

  Dennis Miller

  Teenager, Insulting, Auctions

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• The Mail Online is like carbs - you know you shouldn't but you do. Probably two or three times a day.

  Lily Allen

  Two, Three, Mail

  "Lily Allen: 'I'm called mouthy but I'm just talking'". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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