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• Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Three, Reason, Enough

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

  Jenny Eclair

  Lying, Naps, Red

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

  Tony Dungy

  Children, Growing Up, Dad

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• I was arrested three times and tortured once.

  Paulo Coelho

  Three, Arrested

  "Paulo Coelho: 'Today we are proud of being Brazilians'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2010.

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• It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

  Paul Auster

  Night, Wrong Number, Voice

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.

  Joan Collins

  Coffee, Exercise, Tuna Fish

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• Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

  Cat Cora

  Morning, Children, Three

  "A Recipe for Fighting Child Malnutrition" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Trying, Watches, Three

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• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  Larry David

  Army, Years, Class

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• I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

  Drew Carey

  Two, Guy, Cleveland

  "Drew Carey remembers when The Tonight Show really meant something". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2012.

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• People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.

  Paula Deen

  Two, People, Southern

  "Paula Deen's Comeuppance?" by Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com. January 18, 2012.

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• And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Block, Heart

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• Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

  Ian Fleming

  Witty, Humorous, Destiny

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• A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Loyalty, Dog

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• I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.

  Simon Cowell

  Three, Baths, Sometimes

  "How Simon Cowell Unwinds (and Stays Clean!) at Home". Interview with Liz Raftery and Blaine Zuckerman, people.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

  Bette Davis

  Successful, Peculiar, Three

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• The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

  Dick Cheney

  Heart, Three, Gone

  "Exclusive: Dick Cheney opens up about heart disease battle in new book". "Hannity" with Seah Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2013.

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• When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Team, Winning

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Three, Agents, Trouble

  Dashiell Hammett (2009). “Detective Stories”, p.11, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

  Kevin Millar

  Yankees, Three, Good Things

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• If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, New York, Nba

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• When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Watches, Three

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• Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.

  Rich Sommer

  Memorial Day, Couple, Weekend

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• David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now.

  Gianluca Vialli

  Three, Has Beens

  "Pity Tim Sherwood but Louis van Gaal can bring brilliance to Spurs" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 12,2014.

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