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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Home, Years

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• When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Strong, Nice

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

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• A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

  Adrian Tomine

  People, Role Models, Trying

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Twenties, Three, Four

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.169, Convergent Books

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• Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Education, Children, Block

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• Well, let's see: I started [in music] at nine and quit. Then got back to it when I was twelve. Then I became a party star. In fact, I became a party!

  Richard Manuel

  Stars, Party, Nine

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• The twelve months...
  Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,
  Showery, Flowery, Bowery,
  Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,
  Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Months, January, Breeze

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• There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

  Napoleon Hill

  Glasses, May, Firsts

  Napoleon Hill (1937). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built”

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• Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

  Fred Hoyle

  Age, Three, Tables

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• More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

  Garth Nix

  Past, Advice, Wish

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #1: Mister Monday”, p.211, Scholastic Inc.

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• He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

  K. D. Lang

  Eye, Mirrors, Years

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• I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Thinking, Guitar

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking. I don't think any American can go through that. They don't want to work more than twelve hours and they want Saturday and Sunday off.

  Ryuhei Kitamura

  Hard Work, Sunday, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.

  Carl Jung

  Experts, Rooms, Idiot

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