Twelve Quotes
551 Twelve quotes by 468 unique authors
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I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms and you…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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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…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that…
— Miriam Toews
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In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality…
— Heather O'Neill
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now…
— Neil Strauss
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In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a…
— Donald Judd
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The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas…
— James Lovelock
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The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books –…
— James Lovelock
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Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill…
— Fred Thompson
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I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there…
— Marc Ribot
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Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You…
— Tom Coburn
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose.…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot…
— Allen Tate
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So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.
— Bernhard Langer
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I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can…
— Joe Kinnear
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If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
— Joseph Hume
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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…
— Lottie Moon
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I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
— Mary MacLane
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Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most…
— Maurice Jarre
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From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world,…
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
— Victor Cruz
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the…
— Ernest Dimnet
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Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred…
— Gary Ross
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From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside…
— Richard Louv
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Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was…
— Ben Hecht
Who Wrote These Twelve Quotes
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