Twelve Quotes - Page 6

• Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Years, Want, Pages

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2009). “To Be the Poet”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,
  He taught and first he followed it himself.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Firsts, Taught, Christ

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.34, Barron's Educational Series

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• The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our
  birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes
  twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it
  out of them.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Spring, College

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sister, Thinking, Lakes

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• I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for the last twelve years, and the only thing I ever won was a coupon for a small little jar of tomato paste. But they were out of tomato paste, and by the time they got more in, my coupon had expired. And now I have venereal disease.

  Louise Lasser

  Stars, Filled Out, Years

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• I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years

  Danny Glover

  Years, Ambassadors, Goodwill

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• I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Years, Research

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2003.

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• After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, Daddy, Pedestal

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2011

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• There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Arms, Planets

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• As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

  Elena Ferrante

  Girl, Book, Hero

  "Elena Ferrante, Art of Fiction No. 228". Interview with Sandro and Sandra Ferri, elenaferrante.com. 2015.

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• Twelve years ago my mother gets her cataracts removed. So twelve years ago the doctor gives her these enormous sunglasses to wear to protect her eyes from the sun for 4-6 weeks after the operation...twelve years ago. She still wears them. She thinks they're attractive. She looks like Bea Arthur as a welder.

  Judy Gold

  Mother, Eye, Thinking

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• Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

  Joe Pantoliano

  School, Years, Bird

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• My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

  Alison Lohman

  Mom, Dad, Years

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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• God is a twelve year old boy with Asperger's.

  Eugene Mirman

  Boys, Years, Aspergers

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• Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Morning, Taken, Home

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• I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career.

  Matt Czuchry

  Years, Careers, Support

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

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• I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

  Ava Gardner

  Years, White, Dollars

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• My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first

  Rooney Mara

  College, Acting, Firsts

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• However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

  Brian De Palma

  School, Years, Quaker

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• I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation.

  Paul Auster

  Character, Math, Intelligent

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• Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used

  Tom Coburn

  Real, Cutting, Issues

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• I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.

  Marc Ribot

  Strong, Years, Political

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• Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

  Fred Thompson

  Children, Suicidal, Men

  "'New Reagan' ready for star role" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.

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• We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. The temperature has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Cutting, Should Have

  "Scientist cools on climate alarmism". www.theaustralian.com.au. April 26, 2012.

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• The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time... it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

  James Lovelock

  Should Have, Years, Rising

  "Climate change alarmist warnings all hot air, says British scientist James Lovelock". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. April 24, 2012.

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