Three Years Quotes - Page 17

• [Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.

  Yasser Arafat

  Real, Years, Europe

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.

  Leon Trotsky

  Years, Opposites, Class

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class in the course of three years was a fantastic task, if one wishes to say so, we find ourselves this time "less radical" than the Stalinists.

  Leon Trotsky

  Class, Years, Wish

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I remember being in Dublin in a café and seeing him [Jack Gleeson] two or three years ago, and he came in - Joffrey[from the Game of Thrones] came in - and I remember being so star-struck. I don't like famous people and I don't really get star-struck. But I remember seeing him and being so impressed that he was walking around. So I really like Joffrey.

  Taika Waititi

  Stars, Games, Two

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh, you're missing out on the high school experience," so I'd go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn't want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who's a loser.

  Jessica Alba

  Cousin, Party, School

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.

  Julia Restoin Roitfeld

  Years, Events, Three

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."

  Bill Mollison

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

  Julie Bowen

  Children, Doors, Years

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• When I retired from the championships in 2012, I had finished in fourth place in the international division, second place in nationals, and first in our state three years in a row. This journey not only helped me overcome my fears, it taught me discipline and perseverance. The biggest medals were the friendships that I still enjoy today.

  Emily Carpenter

  Perseverance, Journey, Years

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• I think meditation became truly a means to a deeper connection as I was searching for a deeper truth within myself. Meditation became almost more spiritual than material in nature over the last two or three years and it has deepened a lot as a result of that.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.

  Cliff Martinez

  Writing, Two, Years

  "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

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• I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Daughter, Years, Three

  "Rufus Wainwright on Passion, Opera and Taking Care of the Earth". Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Home, Years, Law

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• My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.

  Ani DiFranco

  Mother, Self, Talking

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• You didn't question - kind of like, you would go to college. You would wear a tie to work. You would, you know, you would work for 40 years. And then you would play golf for three years, and then you would die. That was how I was raised.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Golf, College, Ties

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in a bit of cardio during the week. Although, running and playing around with my three-year-old keeps me pretty active as it is.

  Christina Applegate

  Running, Daughter, Years

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• I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy...

  Garry Marshall

  Years, Balls, Taught

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

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• I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

  DJ Ashba

  Morning, Night, Years

  "Guns N’ Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering, producing and learning all the tricks. So now I have my producing degree and certification.

  Martin Garrix

  School, Engineering, Years

  Source: www.tristateindie.com

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• I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them." That's probably because you had the ones that were on the shelf for three years. Go to some healthy place and get the fresh ones, and you will just love them. You'll start eating them and think they're so good.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Sweet, Hate, Thinking

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• The main idea of it was to multiply everything, to have a bigger sound and grow venue size and grow fan base. As for a lyrical theme of the album [named "X"], it's just diary entries; it's just kind of like three years of my life in songs.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Years, Ideas

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Mom, Brother, Kids

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I'm three years into my recovery from heroin and all this stuff and I want to be able to help people. But they have to do it on their own.

  Anthony Green

  Recovery, Years, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Years, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Stress, Military

  Source: www.wbur.org

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