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“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.”

Trying Problem Together Jobs Three Process Decision Careers Taken Pieces Week Amount Flow Productions Finance Cash Only Time Inadequate Preps Cash Flow

Author:Joe Johnston

“It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.”

Want Three Amount Easier Three Times

Author:Bill Forsyth

“The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.”

Needs Three Lines Poverty Amount Faster Three Times

Author:Robert Reich

“I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.”

Ifs Long Important Character Three Enjoy Answers Attitude Amount Skills Research Asking Conviction Legs Lasting Stools Long Lasting

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.”

Ifs Three Stuff Fans Amount Eight Suits Buttons

Author:Chris Paul

“I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.”

Funny Science Three Levels Brain Amount Activity Congress Concentration Lowest Email

Author:W. Bruce Cameron

“We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.”

Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.”

Has Beens Wisdom Values Fall Three Politics Lost Economy Sacrifice Wind Amount Property Debt Liberalism Contracts Catastrophe Cautious Sowing Whirlwind

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling 'Santorum.'”

People States Three Huge Amount News Beats Good News Romney Bad News Tuesday Fundraising

Author:Bill Maher

“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.”

Years Book Three Reading Fiction Four Car Amount Bed Fairs Nonfiction Desks Back And Forth

Author:James Patterson

“In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.”

Firsts Two Past Order Three President United Half Century Changed Serious Amount Citizens Finished Candidates Unlimited Iowa Hampshire New Hampshire Citizens United

Author:Mark Shields

“Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.”

Ifs Needs Children Would Be Three Water Growing Amount Fairs Treats Profit Sunlight Sibling Identical Cactus Pruning

Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

“A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.”

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Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

“Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before cancer - I would eat red meat probably three or four times a week, easily. I am convinced that the amount of red meat I contributed to it.”

Three Four Week Amount Red Yeah Cancer Convinced Meat Lambs Steak Red Meat

Author:Robin Roberts

“I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.”

Firsts Kind Different Happens Three Novel Blood Amount Medicine Cancer Medical Hips Different Kinds Lungs Poisoning Fracture Pneumonia Lung Cancer

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“The most disturbing part of working on all these issues is the amount of money spent by corporations to confuse, mislead and misinform the public. This is one of the reasons why we are always taking two steps forward and three steps back.”

Two Reason Three Steps Issues Amount Corporations Reason Why Disturbing Mislead Steps Forward

Author:Laurie David

“My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.”

Years Law Three Given Numbers Amount Taxes Percent Congress Administration Appropriate Plus Funding Request Approved Minus

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.”

People Giving Two Hard Hands Three Tvs Amount Notes Scripts Executives Shocked Outlines

Author:Zak Penn

“Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.”

Trying Kids Lasts Three Amount Breaths Foundation Routine New Things Family Life Self Centered Daily Routines

Author:Camila Alves

“In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.”

World Way Mean Persons Jobs Three Careers Four Amount These Days Downsizing

Author:Michelle Visage

“I've been to Loch Ness three times, I've done a fair amount of research on the Chupacabra and things like that, so I've actually done a bit of the sort of paranormal investigation that happens on this show [X-files].”

Done Shows Happens Three Bits Amount Research Fairs Paranormal Investigation Three Times Files X Files

Author:Rhys Darby

“There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember, the United States would fit in Africa three times over and there would still be space. That's how big Africa is.”

Thinking Needs Stills States Bigs Remember Three Space United United States Amount Fit Population Elephants Three Times

Author:Patrick Bergin

“If you don't practice for three days, everyone will notice." It's something you have to really maintain. So unfortunately, I don't play it that often but I may take it up again. If you don't play for a while, you just can't hit the notes. It's like going to the gym. If you go and do weights, you can lift x amount of weight and if you don't go for ages, you've gotta start again and start from the beginning. So it's a bit like that. It's just a muscle.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of weight. That's when her teeth really go bad. It's a terrible, terrible time for her. And she has five children, ranging in age from three to 10. It's an emotionally terrible ordeal.”

Ifs Looks Children Age Three Loses Five Amount Terrible Weight Teeth Eleanor Ordeals Anorexics Terrible Times

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."”

“I put a lot of time and effort into the exercise I get, the amount of rest and sleep I get, and the amount I eat. And I think those three things are really kind of my wellness and health foundation.”

Thinking Kind Three Sleep Effort Amount Exercise Foundation Wellness Three Things Rest And Sleep

Author:Jennifer Ashton

“Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.”

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Author:Kevin Drum

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