Twelve Quotes - Page 27

• I was like twelve or something, when you first kiss a guy and you see the way the guy reacts, how they get really excited, or whatever. And I'm perceptive, so I think, "Ah, jeez, is that something that I'm able to do?"

  Juliette Lewis

  Kissing, Thinking, Guy

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• Super silver, Hawaiian haze Sativa, indica, Solomon's grave Genesis, chapter one verse twelve ways Marijuana, hashish, everybody blaze Fuels and fibers, energy saved When the natives met the travelers, guess what they gave All praise due to the seeds they raised And the people all over the world that smoke J's Kings and queens, musicians, actors Everyday, working class, stoners, slackers Low key blazers and green bowl packers If Mary Jane is in the house then I'm gon' mack her This is dedicated to everybody in the world that smoke weed Legalize it

  Aceyalone

  Weed, Kings, Queens

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• Twelve million children in the United States face hunger every day. Bringing an end to this terrible situation is a passion I share with my friends in the entertainment industry. Together we can end hunger.

  Kathy Ireland

  Children, Passion, Together We Can

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• There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fourth Level. There are people elsewhere. It took me two years to learn to apply the lesson - that neither does the world end with the Ship. If you want to accept life, you have to accept the whole bloody universe. The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.

  Alexei Panshin

  Years, Two, People

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

  Georg Brandes

  Strong, Years, Glimpse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west.

  Gary Snyder

  Book, Years, Names

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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• The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient religions of the Eastern world. Every thing told of Christ has reference to the sun. His reported resurrection is at sunrise, and that on the first day of the week; that is, on the day anciently dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday.

  Thomas Paine

  Sunday, Zodiac, Sunrise

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.599, e-artnow

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• Thirteen at a table is unlucky only,
  when the hostess has only twelve chops.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Tables, Unlucky

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• The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Teaching, Home

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• Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Today, Strive, Minutes

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.55, Rodale

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• No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eight, Two, Six

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.

  George Perle

  Class, Tone, Tradition

  "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.

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• Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.

  Frank Pierson

  Dog, Morning, Mean

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• This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France. Twelve people were killed because a satirical newspaper made jokes that some group found offensive. All of us are accustomed to bad news from around the world. But this story hits home for anybody who mocks anyone.

  Conan O'Brien

  Home, People, Tragedy

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• Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

  Alan Parry

  Football, Running, Unbeaten

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• How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

  John William Draper

  Years, Atheism, Church

  John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.307, New York, D. Appleton

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• I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.

  Trina Robbins

  Age, Remember, Draws

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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  I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."

  Ice Cube

  Girl, Brother, Men

  "The Believer Interview: Ice Cube". Interview with Linda Saetre, blog.longreads.com. December 2003.

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• Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

  Honore de Balzac

  Widows, Handsome, Limits

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• After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.

  Erma Bombeck

  Age, Should, Hernias

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.68, Fawcett

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• With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Distance, Insecure, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2015). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• An only child is never twelve.

  Enid Bagnold

  Children, Only Child

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria.

  Joan Didion

  Pain, Yoga, Anxiety

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.115, Zola Books

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• Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.

  Marie Dressler

  Years, Naked, Fifty

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• A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

  Walter Scott

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

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