Twelve Quotes - Page 18

• If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’

  Henry Rollins

  Girl, Gay, Bisexual

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• Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

  Michael Pare

  Wind, Political, Energy

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• ...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul,
  Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style.
  Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes,
  Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.

  Nas

  Rap, Blow, Clothes

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• I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

  Muhammad Ali

  Christian, Believe, Moving

  "The real reason Muhammad Ali converted to Islam" by Jonathan Eig, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2017.

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• My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church, namely the authority of priesthood, testimony regarding the restoration of the gospel, and the divine mission of the Savior. Everything may be sacrificed in order to maintain the integrity of those essential facts. Thus, if Mormon Enigma reveals information that is detrimental to the reputation of Joseph Smith, then it is necessary to try to limit its influence and that of its authors.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Integrity, Unique, Order

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• As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad about the leaders of the Church, whether true or false, we tend to impair their influence and their usefulness and are thus working against the Lord and his cause.' ... The Holy Ghost will not guide or confirm criticism of the Lord's anointed, or of Church leaders, local or general. This reality should be part of the spiritual evaluation that LDS readers and viewers apply to those things written about our history and those who made it.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Reality, Lds

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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

  Law, Events, Might

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• When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, World, Might

  Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.234, Routledge

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• No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Thinking, Half

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• She couldn’t have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little crown painted in the corner and tiny stars everywhere. I knew I was the only redhead in the competition, and I noticed that her hair and mine were very nearly the same shade.

  Kiera Cass

  Stars, Hair, Hands

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.40, HarperCollins

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• Katniss, there is no District Twelve.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Gale Hawthorne

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.303, Scholastic

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• People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

  Claudia Gray

  Stupid, Years, People

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• Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

  Suzanne Collins

  Names

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games (Movie tie-in)”, p.106, Scholastic UK

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• Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture.

  Jared Diamond

  Technology, Agriculture, Years

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• I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Years, Legs

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• She'd met Colin on a Monday. She'd kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.

  Julia Quinn

  Friday, Monday, Years

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• He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Trying, Chance

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.80, Penguin

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• Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

  Cressida Cowell

  Degrees, Hopeless, South

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• At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.

  Richard Wright

  Attitude, Suffering Of Others, Peaceful

  Richard Wright (2017). “Black Boy”, p.99, Random House

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• Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Death, Six, Judged

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.716, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Should Have, Peers

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” “Pansycake?” says Christina. “Dauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. “Supposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” “Because it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. “No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” “And a half,” he says.

  Veronica Roth

  War, Stupid, Thinking

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• I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Years, Nurse

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.222, Penguin

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• As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Way, Twenties

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• My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions.

  Jason Silva

  Mother, Art, Book

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