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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

Eric Bana

Frustration, Careers, Arrogance

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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.

Alec Baldwin

Men, People, Three

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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

Thomas Aquinas

Peace, Powerful, War

"Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 40, Article 1, pp. 1359-1360), 1485.

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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Thomas Aquinas

Believe, Thoughtful, Love Is

"The Soul of a Nation: Culture, Morality, Law, Education, Faith". Book by Bernard J. Coughlin, p. 27, 2012.

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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Dorothy Allison

Two, Naked, Three

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Fred Allen

Inspirational, Memories, Names

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Henry James

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

"Henry James: A Life". Book by Leon Edel. Volume 5: "The Master 1901-1916", 1972.

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There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

Mario Lopez

Sports, Sisterhood, Men

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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Reba McEntire

Life, Success, Positivity

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

Douglas Coupland

Creativity, Fake, Three

Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.151, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.

Helen Keller

Thanksgiving, Song, Flower

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Norman Wisdom

Funny, Birthday, Memories

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

Rick Warren

Jesus, Easter, Home

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People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

James Taylor

People, Addiction, Watches

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

Casey Stengel

Sports, Baseball, Rain

Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.

Rick Santorum

Children, School, Interesting

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

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There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

Chris Rock

Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Frederick William Robertson

Hypocrisy, Three, World

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To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Richard Perle

Country, Support, Three

David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.57, Random House

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I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Dark, Hard Times, Two

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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Mary Oliver

Love, Life, Relationship

Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

Nathan Myhrvold

Water, Cooking, Energy

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Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Haruki Murakami

Love, Teenager, Cat

"Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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