Dozen Quotes - Page 19

• Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Eye, Garden, Feet

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• In the US you have New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami and dozens of other cities; a few of them have a really strong visual character. But even with those there is just too much space between them and too many people.

  Michael Bierut

  Strong, New York, Character

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Cutting, Order, Years

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Andrée De Jongh story led me to other stories of women who joined the Resistance in France. I found literally dozens of memoirs written by women who had become spies and couriers and helped to create the escape network. These women were like action-star heroes.

  Megan Chance

  Stars, Hero, Spy

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Alcohol is certainly one of the most abused drugs since ever and ever, since Dionysus. They say have a glass of wine at dinner, which was done in the Latin countries. In Italy we always had a glass of wine at dinner. It is a good thing. But if you have dozens of glasses of wine at dinner it is not so good.

  Laura Huxley

  Country, Latin, Wine

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Maxine Waters is a Democrat from California in her 13th term. She is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. She is among the six-dozen Democratic lawmakers who boycotted Donald's Trump inauguration. She did participate in the women's march.

  Michel Martin

  California, Water, House

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into - not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.

  Al Sharpton

  Country, Eight, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Before you go into what is essentially a competition, you have to have that confidence. You have to ask yourself, "Are they looking for a guy my height? My age? I've got a shot." And if there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

  Tom Hanks

  Hair, Guy, Competition

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• The things had been made a half a dozen times from silent pictures through the '30s and '40s. In fact, I think there's a version in the '50s. And then, of course, Spielberg eventually did a version of The Lost World, but this [filming] was '91, I think. And we shot it in Zimbabwe.

  Eric McCormack

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, Half

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.

  Vera Rubin

  Children, Years, People

  Source: www.historicchevychasedc.org

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• People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, People, Half

  Source: inters.org

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• The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place.

  Manning Marable

  Two, Would Be, Nypd

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

  Malcolm X

  School, Army, Rocks

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Real, Team, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• Unfortunately, dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, unfortunately, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Home, Gun, People

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I have half a dozen designers who work for me, they 'realise' most of the design work, and I act as the design director and the main point of client contact on each project.

  Michael Bierut

  Design Work, Directors, Half

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Would Be, Half

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two.

  Michael Bierut

  Writing, Two, Experts

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• When I choose the title [for my book], which was my favorite title, I felt sure there was going to be a dozen books maybe with that name already because it's so obvious to me that that's the message. I was surprised it hasn't been the title of a single book. Well, there is a Shel Silverstein children's book called Falling Upwards. But no one has chosen Falling Upward as a title and I'm very happy it's right on the cover.

  Richard Rohr

  Children, Book, Fall

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Years, Data

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beef steak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets. Does that make sense?

  George Harrison

  Cancer, Heart, People

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• People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens of ways to consume my offerings, and a lecture in a large venue is really only just one of them. So I have no concerns about how much access people would have to me no matter what is the capacity of your pocketbook.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Book, Offering, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Writing, People

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• On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

  Doris Lessing

  Horse, War, Divorce

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• Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

  Rick Perlstein

  Book, Careers

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