Twelve Quotes

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Hilarious, Mom

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• The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

  Sloane Crosley

  Home, Writing, Night

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• When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

  Christopher Morley

  Real, Book, Love Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.24, Booklassic

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• Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Photographer

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

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Hard Work, Passion

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• When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Hilarious, Smart

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• I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Truth, Powerful

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• One does silly things when one is twelve.

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Doe, Infatuation

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.704, Simon and Schuster

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• You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

  Johnny Cash

  Way, Found, Mines

  "Music's Man in Black". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.

  John Densmore

  Garden, Thinking, Two

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• The first twelve years are the hardest.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Firsts

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• 'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

  Spike Lee

  Two, Six, Week

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

  Jessica Lange

  France, Rage, Week

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• It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

  Adolf Galland

  Balance, Unbelievable, Aircraft

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• At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girl, Blue Dress

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.20, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  Ed Koch

  Age, Born, Metro

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• Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.

  Mario Batali

  Night, Ninety Nine, Dragons

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

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• The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, Organization, World

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• People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dog, Vegas, Blue

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• The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Order, Years

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.166, Crown

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• I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

  Kesha

  Years, Playing Music, Reason

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

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• A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Lifetime, Novel

  "'When I Run I Am in a Peaceful Place'". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, www.spiegel.de. February 20, 2008.

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• I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

  Rube Goldberg

  Friday, Art, Real

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