Three Quotes
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Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.
Eamon Dunphy
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We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
Paloma Faith
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If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!
C. Wagner
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I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
Stephen J. Cannell
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
William Shakespeare
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
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I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
Yann Martel
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
A. J. Jacobs
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My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.
Zach Anner
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A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.
Vladimir Nabokov
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'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.
Laura Osnes
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I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington Irving
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Christianity began with 120 in the Upper Room, within three centuries it had become the predominant religion of the Roman Empire. What brought this about? The answer is deceptively simple, while Christianity was being presented to unbelievers in both Word and deed, it was the deed that far exceeded the Word in evangelistic effectiveness.
C. Wagner
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I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
Jackie Evancho
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Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.
H. L. Mencken
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If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
H. L. Mencken
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I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.
Julia Roberts
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The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.
Richard Scott Bakker
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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
F. B. Meyer
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In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
Kevin Spacey
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She's half mad and three parts drunk.
William Boyd