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• I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

  Octavia Butler

  Years, Fifty, Remember

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• If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Needs, Adjectives, Chosen

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• I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

  Jon Tester

  Mom, Hands, Meat

  "What I've Learned: Senator Jon Tester (D, Mont.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2010.

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• If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

  James Dobson

  Men, Two, Way

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• I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.

  Richie Havens

  Home, College, Bags

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• Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

  Sander Levin

  Retirement, Saving, Social

  "Social Security at 75: Don’t Mess With Success" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

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• In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Meditation, Stories

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

  Atul Gawande

  Wells, Complication, Percent

  "Atul Gawande on Medicine's Promise and Limits". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. May 2, 2007.

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• Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be. I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Dream, Team

  Interview with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. November 4, 2005.

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• I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

  Louis Sachar

  Morning, Writing, Years

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• The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.

  Frank Rich

  House, Defense, Bob

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• For every sad thing you think of, you should think of three happy things to chase it away.

  Zoe Sugg

  Thinking, Very Sad, Should

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• The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Years, Half, World

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• I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.

  Steve Spurrier

  Player, Two, Keys

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• I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.

  Garth Brooks

  Girl, Dad, Nuts

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• The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Years, Election

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• We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wife, Verbs, Facts

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• A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

  Walter Winchell

  Art, Waiting, Entertainment

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• You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

  Richard P. Feynman

  Two, Numbers, Four

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.113, Princeton University Press

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• In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

  Barry Mazur

  Simple, Numbers, Adjectives

  Barry Mazur (2004). “Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)”, p.138, Macmillan

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• Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Block, Lying, Book

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.

  Madeleine Albright

  Long, Married, Long Time

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• I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.

  Bill Burr

  Responsibility, Roles, Shooting

  Interview with Matt Wild, www.avclub.com. June 15, 2011.

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• All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

  Mean, Writing, Editing

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• That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.

  LeVar Burton

  Reading, Two, Preparation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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