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• Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

  Elvis Presley

  Thinking, Mind, Four

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• At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Television Commercials, Firsts, Ninth Grade

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• I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Teacher, School, Age

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

  June Callwood

  Two, Fifteen, Facts

  June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Oh, hi. I been married thirteen years, and lemme tell you, it's a thrill to be out of the house. I never get out of the house. I stay home all the time. I never do anything fun 'cause I'm a housewife. I hate the word "housewife." I prefer to be called "domestic goddess.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Fun, Hate

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• There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to the effect of: 'He's confident without being cocky. He has no idea that he could be considered attractive, because he saw All The President's Men when he was thirteen and never looked up.' It was just a great little gem of a screen direction, and I felt immediately from just that, that I had a good idea of how to play this guy.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Cocky, Men, Play

  "Hot Topic: John Gallagher Jr." by Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 22, 2012.

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• New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

  Nancy Pickard

  New York, Ideas, People

  Nancy Pickard (1993). “But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery”, Thorndike Pr

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• Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

  Arabella Weir

  Family, Home, Years

  Arabella Weir (2012). “Does my Bum Look Big in This?”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.

  Derrick Jensen

  Children, School, Years

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.102, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.

  Frank Zappa

  Reality, Nasty, Know How

  Song: Brown Shoes Don't Make It

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• The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

  Peter Greenaway

  Successful, Jumping, Games

  "Drowning By Numbers". Comedy, Drama, 1988.

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• What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

  Diane Duane

  Years, Trying, Found

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• As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.

  LeCrae

  Writing, Skills, Knack

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• The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Growing Up, Animal

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• Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Reading, Years, Sometimes

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam. Preface To the 1983 Edition, p. 27,

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• I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hubris, Ability, Persons

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• We have to make sure that college is accessible and affordable. Two years ago, I stood here and called upon our institutions of higher learning to develop plans for degrees that cost no more than $10,000. There were plenty of detractors at that time who insisted it couldn't be done. However, that call inspired educators at colleges and universities across our state to step up to the plate. Today, I'm proud to tell you that thirteen Texas universities have announced plans for a $10,000 degree.

  Rick Perry

  Education, College, Texas

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• ...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.

  Mary Pickford

  Father, Responsibility, Thinking

  Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”

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• I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

  Toni Morrison

  Father, Names, Daddy

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 12, 2011

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• Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.

  Clarence Darrow

  Summer, New York, Vacation

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• The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

  Nick Flynn

  Plato, Book, Years

  "The Ticking Is the Bomb" by Nick Flynn, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2008.

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• I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

  James Badge Dale

  Hockey, Fate, Thinking

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• At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.'

  Lottie Moon

  Girl, Sweet, Jesus

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.181, Mercer University Press

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• It feels kind of strange knowing that I rule the whole planet of Naboo and I'm only thirteen. At first, my face—because it was really white—was a bit of a shock. But when the whole costume was put together and the headdress was put on, I really felt proud, like a Queen.

  Keisha Castle-Hughes

  Queens, Knowing, White

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• Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.

  George Carlin

  Campaigns, States, American Politics

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