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• I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Directors, Three, Actors

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• You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and also this void. In the story of the tenth man, when each of them counted and thought they were only nine, each one forgetting to count himself, there is a stage when they think one is missing and do not know who it is; and that corresponds to the void. We are so accustomed to the notion that all that we see around us is permanent and that we are this body, that when all this ceases to exist we imagine and fear that we also have ceased to exist.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Three, Should

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• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Failure, Men, Differences

  S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”

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• Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?

  Sam Keen

  Children, Father, Simple

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• I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

  Shimon Peres

  Wise, Morning, Book

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• I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

  Jack Nicholson

  Home, Men, Three

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics - housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Home, Parent, Events

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Eye, Dark

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Orley farm”, p.141

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• In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

  Susan Blackmore

  Giving, Brain, Use

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• The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Kissing, Kiss Me, Firsts

  "Back from the Wilderness ... Miss Cora Munro". Mohican Press Interview, 2005.

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• You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the consequences-it's just unbelievable that anyone could ignore it.

  David Attenborough

  Mean, Science, People

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• According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.

  Gary Kleck

  Mean, Gun, Justice

  "Policy Lessons From Recent Gun Control Research". Article by Gary Kleck, 1986.

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• The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Book, Science, Two

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• I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.

  Robert Rankin

  Writing, Awkward, Doe

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• Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Three, Action

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• Eating three times a day even if you're not hungry.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Three, Eating

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• What I tell you three times is true.

  Lewis Carroll

  Funny, Time, Truth

  1876 The Hunting of the Snark,'Fit the First: The Landing'.

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• I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

  Margaret Mead

  Marriage, Time, Three

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• Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Writing, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

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• As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.

  Isaac Asimov

  Artist, Sea, Cities

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• Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

  Jack Welpott

  Photography, Three, Ruins

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• I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Two, Three, Cinema

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• I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

  Eartha Kitt

  Three, Pieces, Paper

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• The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.

  Ezra Levant

  Idols, Wind, Feet

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