Quotes with thirty-three

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  • Anthony Weiner Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Laurence J. Peter Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Bess Myerson Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Asa Gray Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Washington Irving Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Arthur Godfrey Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Walker 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.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Diana Jordan Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control.
    Diana Jordan
    American com diene
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  • Billie Holiday Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bobby Vinton Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Bob Geldof Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Carl Rowan My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Orson Welles My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Ben Foster My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Barbara Stanwyck My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
    Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • Bill Mauldin My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.
    Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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