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“I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood friends of mine when I was growing up in Scotland. They don't look at me any different than when we were in primary school. So it's good to keep people like that around you. I think if you surround yourself with good honest people, they will tell you what to hear when you need to hear it.”

“If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Hard Three Games Winning Player Team Football Essence Eight Extras Trust Me

Author:Alex Ferguson

“The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.”

Doe I Can Facts Kids Three Support Wife My Wife Golden Privileged

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“If you raise children, you forget what age they are. I mean you don't literally forget, but you treat a 13-year-old like she's 10 and there's a big difference in those three years and they can't stand it. They want to be treated like they're 17 when they're 13. And sometimes you can't help thinking of them as if they were 10 or 10 months old because it's all so recent. So we do overprotect sometimes.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Mean Children Sometimes Helping Bigs Age Three Differences Forget Months Treats Raises Treated Three Years

Author:Meryl Streep

“I think my family, especially having three teenage sons, keeps my cooking at home grounded and very approachable. I'm definitely not making spumas in my kitchen, that's for sure!”

Thinking Home Three Son My Family Cooking Kitchen Teenage Grounded

Author:Rick Tramonto

“I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.”

Years Book Three Reading Stuff Fiction Fantasy Science Fiction Library Ran Three Years

Author:Terry Pratchett

“There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.”

Knows Writing Firsts Two Book Character Three Literature Left Bits Four Months Late Lovely Too Late Plot Left Out New Books Lovely Things Before It's Too Late

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.”

Children Book Done Wanted Three Grandchildren

Author:Carl Reiner

“Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.”

People Want Three Quality Fundamentals Access Legislation Affordability

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?”

Knows Long Three Term Couple Long Term Zone Three Times Time Zones

Author:Amy Argetsinger

“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?”

“Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident. There are competing explanations, we have a pretty good idea, but we're not sure. And then things are speculative.”

Knows Wells Ideas Three Talking Explanation Not Sure Good Ideas Competing

Author:Stephen Schneider

“America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.”

Knows America Three Four Generations Built Immigrants Three Generations Four Generations

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“If you have one farm worker, typically they create three jobs with higher compensation and higher skills - the people that pack, the people that ship, the people that inspect, the people that sell, that sort of thing.”

People Ifs Jobs Three Higher Skills Sells Workers Ships Farms Packs Compensation

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.”

Way Made Might Three Perfect Four Seven Made It Fixed Seven Days

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.”

Knows Years Looks Ideas Bigs Three Next Students Journalism Three Years Big Ideas

Author:Steve Blank

“President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.”

Knows Jobs Three President Usa Brown President Obama Bob Christie

Author:Newt Gingrich

“For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.”

Has Beens Country Three Economic Century Commitment India China Decades Borders Maturity Cooperation Quarters Bullets Tranquility Peace And Tranquility Economic Cooperation

Author:Narendra Modi

“Terrorists are linked to money laundering, dirty money, drug dealing, arms trafficking. We have to ask ourselves, where do terrorists get their weapons from? Where do they get their communication technology from? Where do they get their financing from? These are some of the aspects where I think the entire international community needs to come together and put a complete stop to access to these three key aspects by the terrorists.”

“All of us have just got to find that time to look after our bodies. That helps us make sure that our mind is sharp. I know that when I'm feeling great and really fit, I can get in three or four hours more of really productive work.”

Knows Mind Looks I Can Helping Feelings Body Three Hours Four Fit Productive Feeling Great Productive Work

Author:Richard Branson

“So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.”

Use Three Hours Style Fine Debate Barack Rely

Author:Newt Gingrich

“You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.”

Writing May Has Beens Three Lines One Day Hundred Twenties Good Work One More Day

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.”

People May Stills Body Beautiful Three Strong Glory Pounds Ashes Culmination

Book:The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi

Source: The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“I had three goals and all of them were met.”

Three Goal Mets

Author:George Galloway

“Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.”

“Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.”

World Moving Three Water Fire Imagine Air Depends Elements West Stable Fourth

Book:Eight and a half women

Source: Eight and a half women

“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”

Knows Has Beens Book War Might Three Courses Economy Four Written Masters Hero Pages Supreme Data Might Have Been My Hero Borges

Author:Peter Greenaway

“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!”

“That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.”

Made Hands Three Effort Audience Four Feet Serious Intellectual Rhythm

Author:Eduard Hanslick

“Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.”

Mind Reason Three Language Essentials Aspect No Reason

Author:Johann Georg Hamann

“If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.”

Ifs Stills Reason Three Language Dark Keys Angel Depth Repeats Over It Abyss Three Times Eloquent Apocalyptic Logos Single Word

Author:Johann Georg Hamann

“I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.”

Years Two Fighting Three Black My Own Periods Stones Mess Gray Three Years

Author:Lee Krasner

“I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.”

Wanted Three Week Tomorrow My Boyfriend

Author:Ali Larter

“The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.”

“I am ashamed to say I auditioned three times before I even watched any of the [X-Men] movies. And then after I watched the movies, I was like, "Oh my God, I've been doing it all wrong, why are they calling me back?”

Men Three Calling Ashamed Three Times X Men

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.”

Thinking Book Film Three Months Three Months Days Off

Author:Rachel McAdams

“The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?”

Country Enough Three Share Consequence Increase Meat Decent Quantity Transfers Labourers

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.”

Children Three Four Couple Married Twenties Britain Cents Sixty Great Britain

Author:Thomas Malthus

“I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then.”

Wells Two Bigs Three Havens Decided Fats Bother Smoking Pot Cigarette Packs Three Times Lungs Pneumonia Smoking Pot

Author:Willie Nelson

“And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.”

World Trying I Can Two Pain Three Differences Church Space Pleasure Five Four Football Taste Smell Senses Kicks Bells Lemons Five Senses Limes Chimes Tweens Church Bells

Author:Andy Partridge

“It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.”

Shows Dream Today Lasts Three Projects Method Decades Formal

Author:Hilary Putnam

“I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.”

Three Quality Objects Degrees Laughter Various Describing Mockery Grotesque Three Words Nausea

Author:Sergei Prokofiev

“The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.”

Earth Three Community United Class Land Produce Industry Surface Labour Owners Divided Application Machinery Cultivation Labourers

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.”

People Men Persons Important Together Three Marriage He Man Men And Women Thirds Third Person

Author:Jose Saramago

“Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.”

Men Firsts Turns Three Sides Cases Doors Car Movement He Man Judging Beats Mouths Window Blind Prepared Manage Spots Drivers Vehicle Traffic One Word Shouting Stranded

Author:Jose Saramago

“Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.”

“I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.”

Three Father Dad Bob Dylan Biological Fathers

Author:Jack White

“I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.”

Two Three Cities Four Daughter Busy Active Restaurants

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).”

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