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• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Powerful, Husband, Powerful Women

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• We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

  Mira Nair

  Father, Home, Law

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• I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Years, Two, Problem

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• I ask to become a faery because I love a faery queen, and because she deserves to have someone who loves her for who she is, not what she is. She needs me. There are people-good people-I love and I'm a liability to them because I'm a mortal. I'm fragile. I'm fine. I am in this world. People I care about, the woman I love, friends in all three of the courts This is where I belong. I just need you to give me what it takes to stay with them and be strong enough not to fail them.

  Melissa M

  Strong, Queens, People

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• I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

  Shiv Khera

  Art, School, Kids

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• A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

  Alber Elbaz

  Song, Book, Writing

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• Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Peak Performance, Ready

  Hal Higdon (2011). “Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide: Advice, Plans, and Programs for Half and Full Marathons”, p.157, Rodale

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• By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Real, Educational, Assessment

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• Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady.

  Hamish Bowles

  Feet, Six, Inches

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• You won't shoot nine under unless you birdie the first two or three holes. You just start firing at everything.

  Stephen Ames

  Two, Nine, Firsts

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• If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

  Art Alexakis

  Want, Minutes, Ifs

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• One of my favorite comedies is Three Amigos! Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.

  Jason Dolley

  Brother, Comedy, My Favorite

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• Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.

  Cory Doctorow

  Writing, Rough Edges, Creative

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• John Kerry went duck hunting and he's doing that to fulfill his campaign pledge to hunt down the ducks and kill them wherever they are! Kerry did pretty well; he came back with four ducks and three Purple Hearts.

  David Letterman

  Heart, Hunting, Purple

  "Trail Tales: Gore Returns to Florida". "Late Show" with David Letterman, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2004.

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• Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

  Tom Rath

  Two, Differences, People

  "BODY 2014: How to build a healthier body, step-by-step, in small steps". Interview with Kathy Barthel, www.ctvnews.ca.

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• Exercise is not enough. Working out three times a week is not enough. Being active throughout the day is what keeps you healthy.

  Tom Rath

  Exercise, Work Out, Healthy

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.14, Missionday, LLC

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• I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?

  Mira Grant

  Thinking, Years, Rose

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• I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Book, Writing, Sleep

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• I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Curiosity, Inward

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• Punk can be a mental ghetto.  People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians and have stupid three hour conversation about things like, which band is a sellout and is straight edge cool or un-cool and it's just completely idiotic.  So punk has taught me the aesthetic of the outsider, which is great, but it's also taught me not to get involved in petty little cults.

  Jesse Michaels

  Christian, Stupid, Ghetto

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• I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

  Jonathan Evison

  Running, Dog, Writing

  "Interview with Jonathan Evison, Author of West of Here". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 31, 2011.

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• Texas governor Rick Perry has been in the race only three days, and he's already blowing away the competition like it is a trespassing coyote.

  Stephen Colbert

  Race, Texas, Competition

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• Tonight was the CNN primary debate with the four remaining candidates. It was kind of a change for Newt Gingrich. Usually when he's arguing with three people at once, it's his wife, his ex-wife, and his mistress.

  Jay Leno

  Cnn, Wife, People

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• I'll fight a man with three children and a nice house any day over a man that's living out of a car.

  Art Briles

  Children, Nice, Fighting

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• Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Reading, Naked, Hungry

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