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"The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting."
"I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking."
"Three can hold their peace, if two be away."
"There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court."
"Three women make a market."
"Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]"
"I've always enjoyed prasadam much more when I've been at the temple, or when I've actually been sitting with Prabhupada, than when somebody's brought it to me. Sometimes you can sit there with prasadam and find that three or four hours have gone by and you didn't even know it. Prasadam really helped me a lot, because you start to realize "Now I'm tasting Krishna.""
"The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision."
"Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers."
"I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns."
"I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well."
"Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!"
"If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of Jewish professors, three or four. But by the 1960s, there were Jewish deans and administrators. In fact, one of the reasons why MIT became a great university was because they admitted Jews whereas Harvard did not."
"There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid."
"It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional."
"We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise."
"Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?"
"The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic."
"In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do."
"I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes."
