Three Years Quotes - Page 3

• You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.

  Steve Carell

  Kids, Years, Turkeys

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• I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

  Smedley Butler

  Country, Military, Marine

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

  Tim Burton

  Father, Years, Would Be

  Interview with Danny Elfman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

  Eli Broad

  Summer, Dream, School

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• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  Orlando Bloom

  Years, Three, Roles

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• I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

  Justin Bieber

  Years, Idols, People

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• Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

  Al Franken

  Feet, Years, Guy

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Eight, Air, Years

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

  Damian Lewis

  Morning, Home, Years

  "Damian Lewis Interview HOMELAND". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 1, 2011.

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• With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Years, Three, World

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• We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Years, Lazy, Age

  "National Security Depends on the Nation’s Food Security" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

  Quincy Jones

  Journey, Years, Europe

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Three, Want

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade". Interview with Bo Burlingham, George Gendron, www.inc.com. April 1, 1989.

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• I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

  Hugh Jackman

  Party, Kids, Years

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jun 18, 2014

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• I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Reading, School

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• For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Years, Three, Embarrassing

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• When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

  Josh Gad

  Dream, College, Years

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• It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

  Ryan Gosling

  Real, Play, Years

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• I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

  Ashley Greene

  Dog, Jobs, Dad

  "Ashley Greene's 'Twilight' Fame: Actress Reveals Her Friends Think She's 'Changed'". Marie Claire Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

  Lev Grossman

  School, College, Years

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• Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Two, Three

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• I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

  Patricia Heaton

  Couple, Years, Annoyed

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• My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

  Katherine Heigl

  Years, Parent, Three

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• And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

  Travis Barker

  School, Years, Three

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