Quotes with three-minute

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  • Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • John Ruskin It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Ezra Pound It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Mark Twain It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Peel It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
    Robert Peel
    English politician and Prime Minister (1788 - 1850)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings It takes three to make a child.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Anthony Doerr It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Hank Aaron It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
    Hank Aaron
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder (1934 - )
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  • Mark Twain It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Busta Rhymes It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bill Forsyth It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Ben Schwartz It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Pope John XXIII Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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  • A. A. Milne James James
    Morrison Morrison
    Weatherby George Dupree
    Took great
    Care of his Mother,
    Though he was only three.
    James James Said to his Mother,
    'Mother,' he said, said he;
    'You must never go down
    to the end of the town,
    if you don't go down with me.'
    Disobedience
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Earl Nightingale Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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