Dozen Quotes - Page 26

• Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.

  Joan Bauer

  Teenage, War, Cutting

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• We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye, Wisdom, Love Is

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.192, Penguin

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• I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.

  Stephen Fry

  Mother, Suicide, Teenager

  "Why Russia's Sochi Olympics are now a battleground for gay rights" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2013.

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• While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

  Liya Kebede

  Husband, Blood, Ultrasounds

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• There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Britain, Civics

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• Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

  Russell Baker

  Dream, Escaping, Stuff

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• I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Knives, Temptation, Lines

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• Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Thinking, Boys

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• The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Dancing, Lahore

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• She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

  Lee Child

  New York, Reflection, Texas

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• Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.

  Joan Collins

  Eden, Lists, Actresses

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• The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

  Thomas Frank

  Hero, Islands, Would Be

  Thomas Frank (2012). “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right”, p.11, Macmillan

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• When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

  Atul Gawande

  Symphony, People, Half

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• Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Years, Sky

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• Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Mother, Women, Flower

  "Letter from America: Israeli Jews, Hate Crime and Hate Speech" by Dr. Habib Siddiqui, asiantribune.com. July 27, 2014.

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• I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

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• If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

  Tom Hanks

  Hair, Guy, Needs

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• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

  Daniel Hannan

  Next Day, Interesting, Political

  "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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• One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

  Ethan Hawke

  Character, Thinking, People

  "Ethan Hawke talks Daybreakers!". www.geekscape.net. January 06, 2010.

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• My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.

  James Berardinelli

  Should Have, Office, Guy

  "Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Song, Guy, Woods

  "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.

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• Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

  Liya Kebede

  Fashion, People, Asking

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• Im as country as a dozen eggs.

  Elvin Bishop

  Country, Eggs

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• I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.

  Ted Nugent

  Zero, Honesty, Writing

  "Ted Nugent Exclusive All Access Interview Motor City Madman Shutup & Jam P2". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 22, 2014.

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