"I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had."
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"Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates."
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"I take three showers a day. I don't need to be in the shower for 15 minutes. I'm a five-minute guy."
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"The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt."
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"When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one."
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"I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood"
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"Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do."
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"Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'."
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"I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience of working with Steve Starkey for three years. I watched him produce some gigantic movies."
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"There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others."
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"Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable."
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"One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after."
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"Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components... the syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation. The first of these is interpreted by the semantic component; the second, by the phonological component."
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"With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four."
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"There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart."
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"There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians"
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"Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day."
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"If two or three agree on a common purpose, nothing is impossible."
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"If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches."
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"I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover."
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