Three Years Quotes - Page 24

• The terrorist attacks on September the 11th were a turning point for our nation. We saw the goals of a determined enemy to expand the scale of their murder and force America to retreat from the world. And our nation accepted a mission. We will defeat this enemy. The United States of America is determined to guard our homeland against future attacks. As the September 11th Commission concluded, our country is safer than we were three years ago, but we are not yet safe

  George W. Bush

  Country, Years, America

  "On the Story" with Maria Hinojosa, www.cnn.com. September 11, 2004.

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• I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Teacher, Years, Age

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• I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

  Frank Carlucci

  Iran, Years, Would Be

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• I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Reading, Years

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• And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Past, Years, Would Be

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• I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

  George Duke

  Years, Together, Three

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• I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

  Gerry Spence

  Book, School, Doctors

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• The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement...We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Years, America

  "The 700 Club". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Years

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Love, Years, People

  "ZZ top". Interview With Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2004.

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• I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world

  Robert Caro

  Country, Creating, Texas

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• When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

  Tracy Kidder

  Commitment, Years, Two

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• If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Years, People, Vision

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

  David Hilbert

  Time, Math, Should Have

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• 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

  School, Years, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hansen’s disease”—that’s the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy—“Hansen’s disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years, America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy

  Lou Dobbs

  Past, Years, Names

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• The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

  Jodi Rell

  Retirement, Vacation, Years

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• Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Years, Romance

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• The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Country, Wall, Real

  "Elizabeth Warren Blasts Wall Street, Scott Brown In First Massachusetts Senate Debate" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
  brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?

  Polybius

  Mean, Rome, Years

  Polybius, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (2012). “The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Years, Two

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• Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.

  Mitt Romney

  Years, Office, President

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• My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

  Warren Christopher

  Father, Years, California

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• I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

  Philip Pullman

  Reading, Years, Oxford

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• We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.

  Hugh Laurie

  Girl, Fashion, Years

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