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• Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
  and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Player, Long

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• In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

  Om Puri

  Theatre, Firsts, Lost

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• On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally .

  Ana Monnar

  Mother, Children, Thank You God

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• The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people from the hydrologic cycle, there is enough on a global scale to support current and anticipated populations on a sustainable basis... Three essential goals are dependable and safe supplies for people, protection and management of the environmental systems through which water moves, and efficient water use. Meeting these goals will require that fresh water not continue to be treated as a free good or as the principal means for disposing of human and industrial wastes.

  Gilbert F. White

  Moving, Mean, Water

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• For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight.

  David W. Orr

  Technology, Ideas, Environmental

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• Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
  Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
  Figures pedantical--these summer flies
  Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Phrases, Affection

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 407

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• Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute!

  Gannicus

  Two, May, Tribute

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• I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  Two, Training, Weight

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• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  Pat Gillick

  Yankees, Texas, Atlanta

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• The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.

  Charles Koch

  Hurt, Average, Use

  "Charles Koch on the 2016 race, climate change and whether he has too much power". Interview with Matea Gold, www.washingtonpost.com. August 4, 2015.

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• I don't come from a particularly musical family. My mother learned a bit of piano in Korea. When I was three, I apparently climbed up on our upright piano and started picking Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star out.

  Charlie Albright

  Mother, Stars, Korea

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• I'm the son of a pastor and evangelist and I've described many times how my father, when I was a child, was an alcoholic. He was not a Christian. And my father left my mother and left me when I was just three years old. And someone invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church. And he gave his heart to Jesus and it turned him around. And he got on a plane and he flew back to my mother and me.

  Ted Cruz

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.

  Werner Herzog

  Wall, Real, Drama

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.

  Piers Morgan

  Sports, Children, Hate

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• I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.

  Steve Earle

  Thinking, Hands, Two

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.

  Anne Enright

  Nice, Home, Two

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.

  David Gordon Green

  Years, Ideas, Yesterday

  Interview with George Ducker, believermag.com. November 1, 2006.

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• You get the most 3D effect when it starts about three to four seconds, that's when it starts feeling 3D. And then what you do, quick shots are always flat.

  Michael Bay

  Feelings, Four, Shots

  Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. June 17, 2014.

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• My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

  Lena Waithe

  Character, Interesting, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."

  David Oyelowo

  Play, Two, People

  Source: variety.com

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• It's hard for me to be serious. I can't really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I'm three feet tall, basically.

  Janelle Monae

  Oil, Feet, Laughing

  Source: www.spin.com

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• When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a few notes on it. There are kids who are just drawn to listening to music and dancing to it and trying to conduct.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Kids, Years, Play

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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• I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.

  Dolly Parton

  Jobs, Months, Kind

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• I don't love the idea of three superstars coming together to form a dream team, I'd rather teams are built more organically, just as a fan it's more interesting to see.

  John Legend

  Dream, Team, Ideas

  "EXCLUSIVE: John Legend Talks New Album, Film Ventures, NBA Predictions, Marriage, More". Interview with Elle Breezy, singersroom.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.

  Robin Williams

  Running, Girlfriend, Crazy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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