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"I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art."
"Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words."
"The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy."
"Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day."
"[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before."
"It takes three to make a child."
"I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones."
"Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one."
"But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party"
""Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three."
"All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA)."
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"
"I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost."
"All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind."
"Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable."
"Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors."
"There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease."
"Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night."
"The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none."
"Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys."
