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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

  James Franco

  School, Years, Two

  "James Franco Talks ‘The Broken Tower’ and Addresses His Critics". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

  Jet Li

  Art, School, Years

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• This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Years, Names

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• I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

  Ray Liotta

  Years, Guy, Three

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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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• 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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• 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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• For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Years, Three, Embarrassing

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