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• If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

  Ali MacGraw

  Years, Clothes, Actors

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• I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.

  Ali MacGraw

  New York, Careers, Four

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• I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.

  W. C. Fields

  Years, Drunk, Twenties

  Quoted in The Quotations of W. C. Fields, ed. Martin Lewis (1976)

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• For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.

  Virginia Graham

  Driving, Driven, Type

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• It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Mother, Cat, Journey

  Selma Lagerlöf (1936). “Mårbacka”

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• [On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

  Jessica Mitford

  Exercise, Simple, Appreciate

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• There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Views, Perspective, Opinion

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• Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Blow, Meals, Yeast

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Murder Must Advertise”, p.86, Open Road Media

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• If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Taken, Heart

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• Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

  Stella Benson

  Age, Twenties, Share

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

  Friedrich Engels

  Years, Victory, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia) (1957). “K. Marx and F. Engels on religion”

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• giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

  Storm Jameson

  Jobs, Motherhood, Careers

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• By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating -- merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.

  Brigid Brophy

  Book, Fall, Age

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• Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Men, Dysfunction

  Michael Bloomberg's State of the City Address, www.gothamgazette.com. January 17, 2007.

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• I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Jane or Susan, so when three people get into bed together, you don't know who they are.

  Jackie Collins

  Night, Names, People

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• Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.

  Audre Lorde

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

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• Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Two, Want

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• There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.

  Paula Abdul

  Exercise, Size, Meals

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• I came home for a week after I finished filming Rambo because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.

  Graham McTavish

  Home, Rambo, Months

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• I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

  Kiki Dee

  Kids, Singing, Age

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• None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.

  Dian Fossey

  Men, Apes, Wildlife

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

  Esther Forbes

  Hero, Men, Two

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• In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  People, Liberty, Essentials

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• I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.

  Wendy Liebman

  Clothes, Pieces, Firsts

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• Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.

  Sara Paretsky

  Heart, Two, Doctors

  Sara Paretsky (2009). “Windy City Blues”, p.86, Dell

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