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“We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.”

Different Country Lasts Three Race Land Chosen Settling Neglect Mexico Fertile Different Races

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Jobs Lasts Three Half Balance Doctors Patient Administration Romney Half A Year Over 50

Author:Jim Talent

“But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.”

Hands Wanted Three Wife Week Months Husband Pursue Working Women

Author:Jeanne Tripplehorn

“During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.”

Has Beens Made Book Happens Lasts Night Three My Own Cities Week Hotel

Author:Laini Taylor

“I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.”

Way Two Jobs Mother Three Asks Nice Lucky Grateful Wine Clean Fruit Bread Excellent Meat Cheese Minimum Minimum Wage Crisps Single Mother Two Jobs Wine And Cheese

Author:Rachael Taylor

“I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.”

Two Would Be Today Three Term Car Driven Being The Best Impressive Ferrari

Author:Ratan Tata

“I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.”

Hands Song Three Instruments Quarters

Author:Richard Thompson

“I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.”

Thinking Three Tears Broken Three Times Broken Down

Author:Stephen Tobolowsky

“I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.”

Thinking Years Three Starting Three Years

Author:Tinie Tempah

“Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.”

Men Way Trying Looks Three Successful Block Going Out Successful Women

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.”

Ifs World Littles Two Done Home Wanted Together Three Numbers Tvs Majors Excited Math Corporations Allowing Get Real

Author:Carol Vorderman

“My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.”

Years Three Found Father Left Week Affair Pregnant Mum Were Pregnant

Author:Carol Vorderman

“Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!”

Lying Three Four Week My Favorite Core Plus Ballet Strengthening Pilates Lying Down

Author:Emily VanCamp

“When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.”

Years Firsts Two School Film Three Years Ago Series Two Years Three Years Film School Short Films

Author:James Franco

“Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.”

Trying Ideas Would Be Three Decision Careers Streets Cards Naive Strategic Canals

Author:Benjamin Walker

“I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.”

Three Letters Contact Agents Idiot Editors Foxes Queries Literary Agents

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.”

Looks Three Pieces Ridiculous Fats Suits

Author:Dominic West

“Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.”

Lasts Three Air Son Clubs Holes My Son Peter Championship Chips Up And Down Juniors Wagner

Author:Jack Wagner

“It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?”

Thinking Knows Men Three Hours Quarters Halfway

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.”

World Years Firsts Wells Persons Three Process Walks Five Accomplish Five Years Permit First Person Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:Nik Wallenda

“One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.”

Years Three Deals Careers Four Materials Albums Hardest Release Four Years Hardest Thing

Author:Al Yankovic

“There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.”

Feels Two Three Planets Performances Invincible

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who have nothing to earn yet.”

People Remember Used Hate Three Belief Path Successful Depends Envy Three Things Amnesia

Author:Jedediah Bila

“As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.”

World Trying Wanted Lasts Three Watches Decades Irony Scenarios Armageddon Doomsday

Author:Thomas Frank

“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.”

“Thought, word, and deed are the three levels of creation.”

Three Levels Creation Deeds

Book:The Conversations with God Companion: The Essential Tool for Individual and Group Study

Source: The Conversations with God Companion: The Essential Tool for Individual and Group Study

“The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.”

Ifs Would Be Three Hero Plant Extraordinary Nuclear Miles Disaster Islands Dozen Revival Watergate Nuclear Plants Three Mile Island

Book:Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

Source: Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

“I've lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren't more beautiful than here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life.”

Ifs World Inspirational Mind Beautiful Three Sun Four Inspirational Life Buddhism Incredibles Sunset

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.”

People Thinking Inspirational Important Ideas Might Care Remember Three Share Buddhism Fairs Important Things New Ideas Observing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in which you can make tremendous changes within your self, in the structure of your being.”

Two Self Light Three Strong Buddhism Structure Dose

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.”

Two Able Three Doors Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories... money, health or relationships.”

Problem Fall Three Categories Problems In Life

Author:John Harricharan

“We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.”

Three Father Left

Author:Laurie Lee

“I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.”

Knows Book Fall Three Fiction Havens Mines Couple Science Fiction Contemporary Enjoyed Genre Categories Realistic Sci Fi Historic Realistic Fiction

Author:Lois Lowry

“Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.”

Different Three Debate Presidential Als Adopted Gore Persona Presidential Debate

Author:Rich Lowry

“But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.”

Years Kind Two School Form Three University Clubs Medical Three Years Psychiatry Covering Calendars Medical School

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.”

Years Has Beens Jobs Mother Girl Three Winning Community Roles Mines Proud Models Journalist Role Models My Sister Dedication Exceptional Jennifer Emmys

Author:Ron Livingston

“I've got three kids, and those are mouths to feed.”

Kids Three Mouths

Author:Simon Le Bon

“Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.”

Book Together Three Moon My Favorite Excited Height Twilight Eclipse Jacob Triangles New Moon Love Triangle Favorite Book

Author:Taylor Lautner

“When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.”

People Two Three Answers Six Seven Studios Producers Executives Committees

Author:Thomas Lennon

“Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.”

Years Firsts Said Enough Guy Three Comedy Week Feet Shots Yeah Making Money Ran Gates Three Years Had Enough Misled

Author:Al Franken

“In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.”

Men Two Lasts Three Media He Man Understood Decades

Author:Anson Mount

“In "Three Cups of Tea" I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.”

I Can Three Gone Military Critical Cups Warrior Tea Boots Curves Laptops Cups Of Tea Learning Curve Three Cups Of Tea

Author:Greg Mortenson

“It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.”

Two Book Three

Author:Isaac Marion

“When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.”

Years Firsts Made Bigs Night Three Break Months Three Months Previous Years

Author:Jack McBrayer

“My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.”

Mean Doe Mother Three Dad Married My Dad Zero Three Times

Author:Leslie Mann

“Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.'”

Should Littles Three Proud Bigger Lips Pounds Body Image Melissa

Author:Melissa McCarthy

“To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.”

Three Coming Out

Author:Scoot McNairy

“Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.”

Littles Age Together Three Watches Childhood Adventure Block Hanging Out Really Great Buddy Sixteen Creeks Radius Stand By Me

Author:Scoot McNairy

“As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.”

Giving Doe Made Whole Earth Film Three Boys Birth Concerned Theatre Whole Life Goddess Oscars Down To Earth Sydney

Author:Sylvester McCoy

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