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“You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

Years Long Different Ends Lasts Three Given Five Four Periods Exciting Different Experiences

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.”

Years Three Left Three Years Wire Highlights

Author:Idris Elba

“When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.”

Years Three Three Years Opera Locked Soap Soap Operas

Author:Nathan Fillion

“Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.”

Years Political Three Social Results Revolution Europe Presses Practicals Doctrine France Sixty Three Times Political Revolution

Book:Select Speeches of Kossuth

Source: Select Speeches of Kossuth

“The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.”

Years Book Three Offers Practicals

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.”

People Years Three Ten Six Twenties Seven Pretending Self Knowledge

Author:Agatha Christie

“A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.”

Men Way Years Wells Stills Three Lost Century Thousand Hundred Reverence Boston Crooked Precedent Calves

Book:Whiffs from Wild Meadows

Source: Whiffs from Wild Meadows

“it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.”

Years Wells Two Able Three Reading Sake Three Years Worthwhile

Book:Northanger abbey

Source: Northanger abbey

“The nuclear industry is currently undergoing a rebirth. The uranium market will remain tight for at least the next three years.”

Years Three Next Industry Nuclear Three Years Rebirth Uranium

Author:Paul Gray

“Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.”

Years Made Lasts Three Levels Fields Serious Taxes Percent Meaningful Fallen Relief Als Farmers Three Years Agriculture Proposal Gore Playing Fields

Author:Dan Quayle

“When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.”

Years Dream Three Left Imagine College Three Years Snl

Author:Josh Gad

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.”

Years Stills Age Three Plans Aging Quarters Three Years Sixty

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.”

Writing Years Firsts Made Book Three Five Lucky Husband Five Years Three Years Housewife

Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.”

Years Values Three Taken Thirty Three Years Bangs

Author:Stirling Moss

“The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'.”

Years Stills Hard Law Three Names Truth Is Ten Pushing Brushes Accused Push Yourself Tainted Hunk

Author:Jude Law

“Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.”

Thinking Years Stills Jobs Three Titles Three Years

Author:Jose Mourinho

“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.”

People Thinking Years Firsts School Three Cases Teacher Stupid Lows Expectations Tests Three Years You Re Stupid Low Expectations I Was Stupid

Author:Robert Sternberg

“Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.”

Years Past Night Three Found Morning Work Out Excuse Three Years Every Night Vow

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.”

Years Hard Jobs Three Hours Half Taken Years Ago Sentences Get Better Three Years Half Hours

Author:Goran Visnjic

“For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes uncomfortable with the questions being asked. The very independence of this committee is called into question.”

Years Past Three House Nations White Program Independence Uncomfortable White House Three Years Senate Committees Avoided Oversight

Author:Jay Rockefeller

“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.”

Thinking Giving Years Looks Today Film Dies Three Energy Progress Color Conversation Yesterday Witness Cinema Dimensions Forty Decline Revive Incomparable Three Dimensions

Author:Orson Welles

“Osama bin Laden... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.”

Years Today Three House Wife Six Suicide Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:David Letterman

“Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'”

Way Years Looks Two Romance Three Directors Dating Forty Two Years Reporters Fourteen Old Woman Two Year Olds

Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book

Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book

“I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.”

Years Ends Three Hours Emotion Discipline Six Tests Studios Granted Awards Strict Foreigners Admission

Author:Ralph Allen

“If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.”

Ifs Years Littles Two Would Be Lasts Three Buying Three Years Great Depression

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931

“Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.”

Years Three Bed Died Three Years Assassins

Author:Suetonius

“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”

Ifs Men Years Firsts Use Used Three House Given Taken Fields Return Garden Claims Possession Owners Three Years

Author:Hammurabi

“I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.”

Want Years I Can Play Three Five Comfortable Baseball Guitar Divorce Strikes Five Years Going Through Divorce Three Strikes

Author:Buddy Guy

“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.”

People Ifs Way Years Country Reason Motivational Remember Dies Three Reading Loses Numbers Prove Retiring Three Years Contributing Will To Live Prove To Me

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be.”

People Ifs Years Three Asks Women Written Fine Months Deserve Notes Phones Embarrassed Brides Three Months Acknowledgment Thank You Note Bride And Groom

Author:Ann Landers

“I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.”

Years Two Ends Hard Lasts Certain Three Husband Starting Damn My Husband

Author:Ava Gardner

“You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.”

Years Running Remember Used Three Lifetime Explanation Frank Good And Bad Bad Day Good And Bad Days

Author:Tom Dreesen

“It is far easier to get divorced from somebody you've been married to for 10 years and have three children by than to fire somebody that's worked for you for one year.”

Years Children Three Fire Easier Married Divorced

Author:Sam Brownback

“I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.”

Years Play Jobs Three Acting Cities Company New York Television College Couple Radio Theatre Teenager Canada New York City Three Years Montreal Ontario Live Television

Author:William Shatner

“I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.”

Knows Years Done Three Fun Interesting Company Roles Three Years Criteria

Author:William Shatner

“After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.”

Way Want Years Has Beens Seems Might Three Left Pieces Four Fields Type Loud Something New Vocal Touring Left Field

Author:Dave Grohl

“When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.”

Ifs Knows Years Persons Night Three Break Knowing Fine Bed Anxiety Years Ago Died Stronger Lays Intense Engaged Three Years Not Knowing Knowing What To Do

Author:Miley Cyrus

“We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.”

Years Humans Two Three Materials Three Years Fewer Haste Without Hope

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.”

Men Years Humans Littles Spirit Three Nations Ten Lifetime Determined Score Human Spirit Fullness Will To Live

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.”

Thinking Way Years Lasts Three Brain Three Years

Author:Dan Deacon

“I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.”

People Knows Years Might Three Courses Father Parent Term Wife Mets Function Difficulty West My Wife Indian Officials Three Years Bombay

Author:Glenn Turner

“Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.”

Years Mind Ideas Different Three Growth Brain Week Childhood Century Theory Months Billions Scales Fleeting

Author:Marvin Minsky

“I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.”

“I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.”

Ifs Way Want Years Persons Stills I Can Kids Jobs Fall Three Can Do Falling Down

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.”

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

“Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.”

Ifs Knows Years Romance Three Pieces Modern Theory Hundred Critics Refuse Silly Satire Symbolism Chivalry

Book:Leacock on Life

Source: Leacock on Life

“I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.”

Years Kind Character Three Stuff Four Lucky Speech Pages Stuff I Like

Author:Donal Logue

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