Dozen Quotes - Page 10

• All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Reality, Keys

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• How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.

  William Schutz

  Behavior Change, Self, Appreciate

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• I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

  John Marsden

  Attitude, Selfish, War

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.60, Pan Australia

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• I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Compassion, Our World

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• Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Groups, Looks, Thirty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.324, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Powerful, Government

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• It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

  Robert Ludlum

  Love You, People, Theatre

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• Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

  Ad Reinhardt

  New York, School, Artist

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press

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• It is ridiculous to sue the president on a Wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times illegally and unconstitutionally, and then on a Thursday say that he should overstep the law, contradict the law that passed in 2008 and deal with this himself.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Law, President, Done

  "GOP Admits It’s Hypocritical To Sue Obama Yet Urge Him To Act Alone On Border Crisis" By Igor Bobic, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2014.

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• You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  Len Wein

  Different, Lenses, Textbooks

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• ...The ACS raised over $180 million last year through its network of 58 Divisions and 3,000 local Chapters. The Society's major public campaign is aimed at reducing smoking and cancers related to it. Yet...the ACS has but a single (lobbyist) in Washington DC. The industry-supported Tobacco Institute, on the other hand, has a ten million dollar budget which supports dozens of Washington staff.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Cancer, Dark, Hands

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• First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then, after the war, it became one among half a dozen world cities. Today it has the appearance of standing alone, as the center of culture in the part of the world that still tries to be civilized.

  Malcolm Cowley

  New York, War, Cities

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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• There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

  Jules Romains

  Fashion, New York, Block

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• The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Two, Waiting, Three

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

  James Gunn

  Ideas, Brilliant, Should

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• A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar.

  Groucho Marx

  Women, Hair, Oil

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• As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had already seen their burial place. The songs died on their lips and the air was reclaimed by the birds.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Song, Eye, Men

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• But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Guitar, Dimes

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• I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009). “Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanna get rich enough in life that I can afford to release a dozen doves every time I walk into a room. You know people would be like, 'Did you see that guy come out of the bathroom? The one with doves, it was beautiful.'

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Beautiful, People

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• There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

  Amar Bose

  Boston, Gone, Mit

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• But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.

  Galileo Galilei

  Men, Two, Secret

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• When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Drama, School, Training

  "'I think I'm quite good at my job'". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

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• There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

  Joseph Barbera

  Jobs, Men, Years

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Military, Smart, Grateful

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