Three Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Drinking, Fighting, Making Love

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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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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• Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

  Sally Quinn

  Running, Climbing, Two

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• Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Sea, White

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• Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

  Amy Sedaris

  Ideas, Imagination, Enough Time

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• No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of the rainbow thrown in for good measure. When twenty or thirty of us meet, it is as hard to find three or four with the same complexion as it would be catch greased lightning in a bottle.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Color, White, Rainbow

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• Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

  Tracey Ullman

  Kids, Thinking, Two

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• We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Thinking, Blind Spots

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• [On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Doors, People

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• Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

  Shiv Khera

  Goal, People, Ends

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• The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Children, World And Love, Eldest Child

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• the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more vocal than introverts; they are more numerous, apparently in the ratio of three to one; and they are accessible and understandable, whereas the introverts are not readily understandable, even to each other, and are likely to be thoroughly incomprehensible to the extraverts.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Civilization, Viewpoints, Ratios

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• That party last night was awfully crazy I wish we taped it
  I danced my ass off and had this one girl completely naked
  Drink my beer and smoke my weed
  But my good friends is all I need
  Pass out at three wake up at ten
  Go out to eat then do it again
  Man I love college.

  Asher Roth

  Girl, Weed, Crazy

  "Song: 'I Love College'". 2009.

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• You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.

  Mary Deasy

  Sports, Soul, Mind

  Mary Deasy (1948). “The Hour of Spring”

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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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• [On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.

  Edith Roosevelt

  Children, Names, Publicity

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• The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  War, Soul, Suffering

  Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.541, Doubleday

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• It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.

  Anne Bernays

  Writing, Sound, Four

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• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Teaching, Book

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• In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.

  Carmine Gallo

  Writing, Numbers, Satisfying

  Carmine Gallo (2014). “Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds”, p.195, St. Martin's Press

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• There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Years, Culture, Roles

  "Benedict Cumberbatch Interview SHERLOCK; Also Talks About Steven Spielberg’s WAR HORSE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2010.

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• The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

  Jorge Paulo Lemann

  Years, Skills, People

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• Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasing/surprising/exciting solution.

  Peter Turchi

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.

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