Three Quotes - Page 24

• I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

  Barack Obama

  Knowing, Years, Promise

  Democratic debate, Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2007.

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• Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Jobs, Real

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2006.

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• As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

  Ernest Cline

  Games, House, Video

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?

  Steve Martin

  Fun, Night, Film

  Source: movieweb.com

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• What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store you think "Gee, everything looks about the same."

  Tim Gunn

  Thinking, Interesting, Looks

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.

  Steven Pressfield

  Thinking, Years, Way

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Wall, Mistake, Way

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dollars, Paper, Lifestyle

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• I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

  Lance Armstrong

  Jobs, Memories, Cherish

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful. I mean, I live in a three-room apartment. I mostly make free videos on my couch. But I am fine.

  Sarah Silverman

  Mean, Successful, Video

  "Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, and Roseanne Barr Talk Judaism, F-bombs, and Radical Feminism". Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.

  Billy Crystal

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

  "Billy Crystal And John Goodman: How We Got Here". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. June 14, 2013.

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• The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

  Jeff Bezos

  Technology, Important, Retail

  "Speaking Out: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos". The BusinessWeek Interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.

  Nina Berberova

  Time, Years, Fabric

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• Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Morning, Inspiration, Writing

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• If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Jobs, Work, Thinking

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.141, Penguin

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• The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

  Willa Gibbs

  Crazy, Lazy, Religion

  Willa Gibbs (1957). “All the Golden Doors”, New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts

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• When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends three: Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity.

  Theodosia Garrison

  War, Sacrifice, Wrath

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• the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Giving, Wife

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• China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.

  Arjuna Mahendran

  Moving, Two, Might

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• Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, School, Ignorance

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.115, New Society Publishers

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• From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Anger, Ignorance, Views

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• Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf.

  Jack O'Neill

  Things In Life, Surfing, Important

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• What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Expression, Years, Tree

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.

  Roland Barthes

  Jesus, Reality, August

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• I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Father, Spirit

  Joseph Smith Jr. (2010). “Lectures on Faith”, p.88, Cedar Fort

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