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Name 12 players better than me. Votes: 1

Jalen Rose

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The score is still Q to 12! Votes: 1

Bill Watterson

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Even Jesus had trouble with 12 guys. Votes: 1

Frank Layden

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Ive had Malcolm since I was 12. Votes: 1

Frankie Muniz

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I got into music when I was 12, 13. Votes: 1

Meek Mill

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I always think 12 times before saying anything. Votes: 1

Brenda Blethyn

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My parents got married when I was 12. Votes: 1

Joel Kinnaman

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I was fascinated by movies from age 12. Votes: 1

Jean Paul Gaultier

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Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors. Votes: 1

Dario Argento

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I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17. Votes: 1

Lee Majors

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My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity. Votes: 1

Wolfman Jack

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As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary. Votes: 1

Rooney Mara

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We've got 12-year-old boys dressing up as transvestites. Votes: 1

David Walliams

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Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality. Votes: 1

Andrew Johnson

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As president, I will create 12 million new jobs. Votes: 1

Mitt Romney

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Donald Trump's shipped jobs to 12 countries, including Mexico. Votes: 1

Hillary Clinton

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I love my mom! You can too for $12! Votes: 1

Bob Saget

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I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12. Votes: 1

Paloma Faith

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I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times. Votes: 1

Pat Metheny

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You get 12 years of childhood, give or take. Votes: 1

Colin Trevorrow

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Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40. Votes: 1

James Thurber

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The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore. Votes: 1

Jordana Spiro

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From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything. Votes: 1

Natalie Wood

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They're 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares? Votes: 1

Rush Limbaugh

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District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety. Votes: 1

Suzanne Collins

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I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes. Votes: 1

Billy Burke

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Hotmail just picked up 12 new episodes of 'Judging Amy'. Votes: 1

Billy Eichner

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If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association. Votes: 1

Mitch Hedberg

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Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks. Votes: 1

Peter Farrelly

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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six. Votes: 1

Bob Hope

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The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957. Votes: 1

Roger McGuinn

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Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11? Votes: 1

Andy Cairns

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I never rode in an automobile until I was 12. Votes: 1

Loretta Lynn

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I couldn't say my own name when I was 12. Votes: 1

Ken Venturi

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I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could. Votes: 1

Ken Baumann

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Im a size 12 and Im very happy with it. Votes: 1

Keeley Hawes

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I think especially boys have a competitive streak when they're 12. Votes: 1

Gage Munroe

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The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. Votes: 1

Robert Scheer

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My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight. Votes: 1

Jenna Morasca

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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers. Votes: 1

Alan Hirsch

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Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives. Votes: 1

Charles Spurgeon

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I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers. Votes: 1

Tom Chapin

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Even at 10 or 12, I was a hot, fast little cheerleader. Votes: 1

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music. Votes: 1

King Krule

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A good painting has to do about 12 things at once. Votes: 1

Joe Bradley

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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. Votes: 1

T. Boone Pickens

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I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. Votes: 1

Mose Allison

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I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months. Votes: 1

Kathryn Harrison

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I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12. Votes: 1

Akshay Kumar

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I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table. Votes: 1

Dom DeLuise

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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them. Votes: 1

Eddie Van Halen

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I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live. Votes: 1

Jonathan Jackson

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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12. Votes: 1

David Copperfield

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By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks. Votes: 1

Joshua Lederberg

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I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years. Votes: 1

Megan Fox

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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English. Votes: 1

Jack Ma

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My goal, whenever entering a project, is always to gain 12 pounds. Votes: 1

Bob Odenkirk

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I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. Votes: 1

Steven Patrick Morrissey

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I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up. Votes: 1

Robert Bateman

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I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children. Votes: 1

Monica Denise Brown

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If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day. Votes: 1

William Devane

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I was a lawyer for 12 years in New York and Sweden. Votes: 1

Greg Poehler

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I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips. Votes: 1

Bryce Harper

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Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch. Votes: 1

George S. Kaufman

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I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12. Votes: 1

David Copperfield

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When you think about it, 12:15 P.M. is actually 11:75 A.M. Votes: 1

George Carlin

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I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12. Votes: 1

Apolo Ohno

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I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old. Votes: 1

Eugene Ionesco

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I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist. Votes: 1

John Travolta

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You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders. Votes: 1

Bill Richardson

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I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12. Votes: 1

Shaun White

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'Heroes' was a huge show with 12 cast members and giant special effects. Votes: 1

Sendhil Ramamurthy

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My memories are of denim. I remember being 12 in my Levi's. Wow! Votes: 1

Stefano Gabbana

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The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism. Votes: 1

Peter Brimelow

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If you've got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. Votes: 1

Michael Lewis

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I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad. Votes: 1

Damir Dokic

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I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time. Votes: 1

Portia Doubleday

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Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide! Votes: 1

Duane Chapman

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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages. Votes: 1

Damon Wayans

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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years. Votes: 1

Harrison Ford

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I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12. Votes: 1

Chuck Norris

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I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year. Votes: 1

Italo Calvino

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When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow. Votes: 1

Gerard Butler

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I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12. Votes: 1

James McAvoy

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Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book. Votes: 1

Jerry Spinelli

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The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us. Votes: 1

Leon Panetta

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I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove. Votes: 1

Anderson Cooper

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In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do. Votes: 1

Jim Lehrer

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The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE! Votes: 1

Terry Moore

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The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind. Votes: 1

John Holland Rose

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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it. Votes: 1

Young Buck

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I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike. Votes: 1

Carre Otis

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Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world. Votes: 1

Wes Anderson

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it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary. Votes: 1

Hunter S. Thompson

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The toughest individual I've ever met in my life is Jim Kelly, number 12. Votes: 1

Andre Reed

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I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12. Votes: 1

Norman Wisdom

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I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12. Votes: 1

Thomas Friedman

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Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13. Votes: 1

Alicia Keys

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He's 78 years old... He's not the same Orrin Hatch I knew 12 years ago. Votes: 1

Scott Howell

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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments. Votes: 1

Carlos Slim

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One day, you're 11 games, 12 games out, and the next day you're in first! Votes: 1

Jeff Francoeur

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Quit while there is still time - at about 12 or 13 years of age! Votes: 1

Gilles Gratton

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I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films. Votes: 1

Renny Harlin

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12 of the best years of my life - It will never be forgotten. Votes: 1

Troy Aikman

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I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17. Votes: 1

Philip Emeagwali

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I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio. Votes: 1

Roy Rogers

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We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left. Votes: 1

Joe Hart

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At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! Votes: 1

Christian Louboutin

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I was 12 minutes late. Let's not make a federal case out of it. Votes: 1

Christopher Michael Cillizza

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I've been 6'4'' since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon. Votes: 1

Jason Segel

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My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way. Votes: 1

Donald McKay

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I got expelled from my school when I was 12; I was quite bad! Votes: 1

Robert Pattinson

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I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12. Votes: 1

Taylor Swift

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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing. Votes: 1

Eddie Van Halen

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The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22 Votes: 1

Deborah Smith

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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home! Votes: 1

Kari Wahlgren

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I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. Votes: 1

Allison Williams

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Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers. Votes: 1

David Swanson

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Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux. Votes: 1

Bruce Perens

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Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers. Votes: 1

Shayne Ward

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Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! Votes: 1

John Lydon

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Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle. Votes: 1

Michael Pollan

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My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner. Votes: 1

Emma Watson

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Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12. Votes: 1

Andy Murray

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I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport. Votes: 1

Mikhail Prokhorov

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Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. Votes: 1

Alexis Korner

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Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words. Votes: 1

Tim O'Brien

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I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me. Votes: 1

Robert Quine

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What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty. Votes: 1

Bob Verdi

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When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly. Votes: 1

Daniel Woodrell

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If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues. Votes: 1

Johnny Ramistella

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Long-term meditators can have a biological age 5 to 12 years younger than their chronological age. Votes: 1

Deepak Chopra

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I started writing seriously when I was about 12.I am always in the mood. Votes: 1

Stephen King

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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook. Votes: 1

Adam Giles

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I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles. Votes: 1

Johnny Carson

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I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. Votes: 1

Raymond Carver

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When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider. Votes: 1

Michelle Rodriguez

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Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends. Votes: 1

Cate Blanchett

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I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time. Votes: 1

Alan Dershowitz

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I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord. Votes: 1

Jamie Blackley

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I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again. Votes: 1

Macaulay Culkin

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I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly. Votes: 1

Helen Mirren

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Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one. Votes: 1

Casey Stengel

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Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin. Votes: 1

Tom Barrett

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I myself have 12 hats, and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself? Votes: 1

Margaret Atwood

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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow. Votes: 1

Olesya Rulin

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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. Votes: 1

Julian Bond

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Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers. Votes: 1

Samantha Bond

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Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12 Votes: 1

James Patterson

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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films. Votes: 1

Boris Karloff

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I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years. Votes: 1

Summer Altice

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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars. Votes: 1

Ray Bradbury

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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. Votes: 1

Bill Gates

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I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old. Votes: 1

Derek Hough

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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls. Votes: 1

Ian Mckellen

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I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12. Votes: 1

Richard Roeper

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I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out. Votes: 1

Eric Bristow

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At the Oscars, if you didnt vote for 12 Years a Slave' you were a racist. Votes: 1

Gary Oldman

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I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. Votes: 1

Lucas Grabeel

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I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me! Votes: 1

Courtney Love

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I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. Votes: 1

Ahmet Zappa

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I was 12 when I started and 34 before I achieved my dream, that should give people hope. Votes: 1

Kelly Holmes

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I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. Votes: 1

Dick Bruna

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You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. Votes: 1

Ernest Rutherford

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When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts. Votes: 1

Sara Paxton

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When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up. Votes: 1

Ice Cube

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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status. Votes: 1

Wendy Kopp

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I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15. Votes: 1

Layne Staley

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I stay off the booze for a whole 12 weeks before a fight, it can be tough! Votes: 1

Michael Bisping

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I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on. Votes: 1

Marian Keyes

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For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success. Votes: 1

Shania Twain

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Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12. Votes: 1

Anwar Robinson

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Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote. Votes: 1

Carol Moseley Braun

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I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. Votes: 1

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals. Votes: 1

Jean Berko Gleason

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I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now. Votes: 1

Michelle Obama

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Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time. Votes: 1

Wentworth Miller

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I have a 20-year-old son, I have a 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them, Votes: 1

Killer Mike

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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. Votes: 1

Sylvia Earle

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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. Votes: 1

Charles Kuralt

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If I was US Lacrosse, I wouldn't let any kids play field until they were 10 or 12, Votes: 1

Bill Tierney

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Did you know you can have an Irish abortion, but there is a 12 month waiting list? Votes: 1

Frank Carson

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I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years. Votes: 1

Ziggy Marley

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I wanted to turn pro at like 12 years old when I was riding for Bones Brigade. Votes: 1

Christian Hosoi

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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. Votes: 1

Alexander McQueen

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I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso. Votes: 1

Domenico Dolce

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I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day. Votes: 1

Marguerite Moreau

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I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213 Votes: 1

Sylvia Day

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I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day. Votes: 1

Bobby Schilling

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When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down. Votes: 1

Mark Richards

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The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am. Votes: 1

Suzanne Collins

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Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss. Votes: 1

Josh Hartnett

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They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. Revelation 12:11 Votes: 1

Beth Moore

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We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly. Votes: 1

Warren Buffett

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12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get. Votes: 1

Glynn Turman

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I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality. Votes: 1

Shannyn Sossamon

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I don't feel 25 years old. Sometimes I feel I'm 12 years old. Sometimes I feel I'm 50 years old. Votes: 1

Victoria Azarenka

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In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months. Votes: 1

Aldous Huxley

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I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds. Votes: 1

Peter Menzel

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At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice. Votes: 1

Richard Rorty

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For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37 Votes: 1

Beth Moore

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I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child. Votes: 1

Dolly Parton

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By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything. Votes: 1

Wilma Rudolph

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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. Votes: 1

A. E. van Vogt

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I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age. Votes: 1

Muhammad Ali

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I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film. Votes: 1

Anil Kapoor

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Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12). Votes: 1

John Bevere

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I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do. Votes: 1

Jeff Bridges

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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour. Votes: 1

Vladimir Lenin

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I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul. Votes: 1

Neil Morrissey

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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since. Votes: 1

Harmony Korine

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Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day. Votes: 1

Mike Myers

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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. Votes: 1

Octavia Butler

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A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team. Votes: 1

Lou Piniella

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I'm prepared for 12 rounds. I'll be very happy with anything else, but I'm prepared for 12 or 15 rounds. Votes: 1

Jan Zaveck

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In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old. Votes: 1

Jerry Sloan

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After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. Votes: 1

Franco Harris

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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12. Votes: 1

Xavier Becerra

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People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it. Votes: 1

Seth Rogen

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I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months. Votes: 1

Kenneth Fisher

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Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing. Votes: 1

Stephen Baldwin

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I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that. Votes: 1

Trisha Goddard

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The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key. Votes: 1

Scott Ellis

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I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19. Votes: 1

Elle King

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Those who think godly living makes them invulnerable to trouble are living in a fantasy world. - 2 Timothy 3:12 Votes: 1

Ray C. Stedman

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Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours. Votes: 1

Kemmons Wilson

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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music. Votes: 1

Van Morrison

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We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms. Votes: 1

John Kline

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My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one. Votes: 1

Selma Blair

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Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy. Votes: 1

Andrew Mason

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I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.' Votes: 1

Logan Lerman

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I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old. Votes: 1

Masiela Lusha

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Facebook is great for getting upset about things people say even though you haven't seen them in 12 years. Votes: 1

Dov Davidoff

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My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside... Votes: 1

Kellyanne Conway

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I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far. Votes: 1

Benedict Cumberbatch

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I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID! Votes: 1

Thornton Wilder

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I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed. Votes: 1

Alexandr Dolgopolov

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I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back. Votes: 1

Denzel Washington

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I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale! Votes: 1

Kristin Davis

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I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years. Votes: 1

Roy Ayers

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I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return. Votes: 1

Cobie Smulders

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I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. Votes: 1

Christopher McQuarrie

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The hours from 7 to 12 are your time to build for the future before the world descends on you. Votes: 1

Tyler Cowen

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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. Votes: 1

Peter Bichsel

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I'd take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don't respect the game. Votes: 1

Michael Jordan

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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years. Votes: 1

Mario Cuomo

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I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell. Votes: 1

Nicholas Jarecki

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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. Votes: 1

Anita Diament

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I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie. Votes: 1

Zedd

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They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have. Votes: 1

Gordon Ramsay

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Ive been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title. Votes: 1

Joel Parkinson

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My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that. Votes: 1

Steve Earle

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I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. Votes: 1

Tom Hooper

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I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14. Votes: 1

Joyce Brothers

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The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are. Votes: 1

Paula Abdul

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I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived. Votes: 1

Lorenza Izzo

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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range. Votes: 1

Ron White

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Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was! Votes: 1

Coco Rocha

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I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible. Votes: 1

Richard D. Zanuck

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But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. Votes: 1

Dave Eggers

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I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book. Votes: 1

Cassandra Clare

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Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Votes: 1

Robert Pattinson

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When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them. Votes: 1

Paul Merton

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My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. Votes: 1

Jane Fonda

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Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14]. Votes: 1

Leonard Ravenhill

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Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. Votes: 1

Marianne Williamson

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It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself. Votes: 1

Lynn Abbey

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I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12 Votes: 1

Johnny Winter

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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you? Votes: 1

Stephen King

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American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power. Votes: 1

Neil Kinnock

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We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online. Votes: 1

Clay Shirky

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I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go. Votes: 1

Andy Cohen

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At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school. Votes: 1

Joyce Banda

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The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA Votes: 1

Harry Dean Stanton

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Sitting with Maharaj-ji creates who I am as much as sitting in a 12 Step meeting creates who I am. Votes: 1

Jai Uttal

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They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up. Votes: 1

Jackie Cooper

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I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months Votes: 1

The Weeknd

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I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues. Votes: 1

Tom Seaver

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When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis. Votes: 1

Anna Kournikova

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I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon. Votes: 1

Paula Poundstone

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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight. Votes: 1

Billy Connolly

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I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking. Votes: 1

Patty Loveless

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I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me. Votes: 1

Curtis Jackson

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Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned. Votes: 1

The Velominati

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A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old. Votes: 1

Joe Eszterhas

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I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up. Votes: 1

Isla Fisher

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I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need. Votes: 1

Heather Graham

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I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious. Votes: 1

Claire Tomalin

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For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years. Votes: 1

Anne Waldman

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Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. Votes: 1

Lupita Nyong'o

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They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom. Votes: 1

Robin Ince

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For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called. Votes: 1

Charlie Watts

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The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites. Votes: 1

Chuck Close

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The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening. Votes: 1

Bunker Roy

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I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition. Votes: 1

Sebastian Coe

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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse. Votes: 1

Kate Adie

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To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. Votes: 1

Jason Mraz

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I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that. Votes: 1

Alden Ehrenreich

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Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home. Votes: 1

Reid Scott

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We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M. Votes: 1

R. Bowen Loftin

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I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job. Votes: 1

Carroll O'Connor

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Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side. Votes: 1

Warren Spahn

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Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. Votes: 1

Mick Garris

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I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running. Votes: 1

Shaquille O'Neal

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Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. Votes: 1

Joyce Maynard

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Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two." Votes: 1

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'. Votes: 1

Steven Rodney McQueen

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Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12. Votes: 1

Tom Jones

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The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong. Votes: 1

Linus Torvalds

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Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear? Votes: 1

Eminem

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It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12. Votes: 1

Tim Gunn

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I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. Votes: 1

John Boyne

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I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city. Votes: 1

Alexei Sayle

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I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children. Votes: 1

Lee Majors

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If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls? Votes: 1

Tony Porter

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I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific. Votes: 1

Mitch Hedberg

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We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV) Votes: 1

Billy Graham

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I donât look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like Iâm 12. Votes: 1

Lea Michele

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I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. Votes: 1

Annie E. Clark

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Never compromise the glorious Gospel. It is the Gospel "from" Christ and not merely a Gospel "about" Christ. Gal 1:6-12 Votes: 1

John Paul Warren

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[When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We're playing the field right now. Votes: 1

Harry Connick, Jr.

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I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours. Votes: 1

Kemmons Wilson

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I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008) Votes: 1

George W. Bush

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After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called. Votes: 1

Joe Torre

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My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right? Votes: 1

Tyne Daly

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My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12. Votes: 1

Louie Anderson

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Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. Votes: 1

Nostradamus

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Carlos: I'm 22. Logan: I'm 22. James: I'm 12. Kendall: You have a really deep voice for a 12 year old. James:I'm maturing quickly. Votes: 1

Big Time Rush

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I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible. Votes: 1

Richard Powers

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I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience. Votes: 1

Melina Marchetta

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I'll tell you how to solve this abortion thing...Those unwanted babies...? Leave about 12 of them on the Supreme Court steps. Votes: 1

Bill Hicks

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These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old. Votes: 1

Ann Coulter

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Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails. Votes: 1

David Letterman

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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. Votes: 1

Wendell Pierce

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[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for. Votes: 1

Eric McCormack

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Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. Votes: 1

Al Bernstein

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Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air. Votes: 1

Kelly Ripa

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I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life. Votes: 1

Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

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I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch. Votes: 1

Charlie Brooker

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I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools. Votes: 1

Eli Broad

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It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened. Votes: 1

Jamie Carragher

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I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school. Votes: 1

Peter Ham

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I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person. Votes: 1

Benedict Cumberbatch

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I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern. Votes: 1

Marc Bolan

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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs. Votes: 1

Paul Simon

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In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018. Votes: 1

Gianluigi Buffon

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These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion Votes: 1

Paul Soglin

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One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record. Votes: 1

Bryan Adams

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It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess. Votes: 1

Luc Montagnier

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When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in. Votes: 1

Alain Robert

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I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life. Votes: 1

Bobby Moynihan

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If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate. Votes: 1

Anna Popplewell

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This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change]. Votes: 1

Arthur B. Robinson

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We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. Votes: 1

Virginia Satir

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When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola. Votes: 1

Marina Abramovic

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We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years. Votes: 1

Paul Ryan

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One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm. Votes: 1

Tom Vilsack

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By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence. Votes: 1

Sheri L. Dew

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I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously. Votes: 1

Chrissy Teigen

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I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life. Votes: 1

Ryan Gosling

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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up. Votes: 1

Truman Capote

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I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups. Votes: 1

John Legend

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I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life. Votes: 1

Thom Mayne

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What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke. Votes: 1

Zach Braff

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The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13, Votes: 1

Ray Bradbury

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I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month. Votes: 1

Sidney Poitier

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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing. Votes: 1

Mel Brooks

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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers. Votes: 1

Danica McKellar

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When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar. Votes: 1

Sam Endicott

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When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed. Votes: 1

Jennie Finch

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Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?" Votes: 1

Red Buttons

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I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem. Votes: 1

Artie Lange

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In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries Votes: 1

Burt Rutan

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I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century. Votes: 1

Nigel Melville

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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful. Votes: 1

Tom Stoppard

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In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries. Votes: 1

Burt Rutan

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So you [Nicholas Kristof] have got this new column out, 12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the [ Donald Trump] election. Votes: 1

Tucker Carlson

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When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things. Votes: 1

Jill Scott

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When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas. Votes: 1

Chris Brown

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God, three weddings in one day, I'm going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. My elastic line is gonna get infected again. Votes: 1

LIZ

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Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years. Votes: 1

Edward Zander

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A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK! Votes: 1

Roald Dahl

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My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it. Votes: 1

Elizabeth Strout

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I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why. Votes: 1

Warren Spector

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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. Votes: 1

Pete Seeger

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When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking. Votes: 1

Juan Manuel Fangio

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When i was 12 all of my friends had girlfriends and i didn't, i felt lonely so i asked my mom to date me. Votes: 1

Niall Horan

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Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90 Votes: 1

Isak Dinesen

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I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays. Votes: 1

Caitlin Moran

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The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it. Votes: 1

Dirk Benedict

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I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer. Votes: 1

Ken Fox

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Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old. Votes: 1

Will Smith

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I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did. Votes: 1

Courtney Thorne Smith

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When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right. Votes: 1

Evelyn Glennie

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When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had. Votes: 1

Allegra Huston

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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners. Votes: 1

Mahatma Gandhi

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Why are desire scales 1-10? They should be 1-12, like a clock, because I want her 1-12, I mean like all the time. Votes: 1

Jarod Kintz

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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?' Votes: 1

Matthew McConaughey

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I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street. Votes: 1

Terrell Owens

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For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am. Votes: 1

Kate Bush

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I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did. Votes: 1

Courtney Thorne-Smith

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My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels. Votes: 1

Robert Webb

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In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded Votes: 1

Alan Brazil

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I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit. Votes: 1

Justin Timberlake

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The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing. Votes: 1

Judy Blume

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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died. Votes: 1

Colm Toibin

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I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write. Votes: 1

Colm Toibin

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I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool. Votes: 1

Arsene Wenger

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I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12. Votes: 1

Jenny Lewis

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What we tell students in formal schooling: âSit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well. Votes: 1

Alex Tabarrok

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's kind of a more of a comedic-actiony film. And then we just started Ocean's [12] Monday. Or I did anyways. Votes: 1

Brad Pitt

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I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people. Votes: 1

Birdy

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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo. Votes: 1

Carla Bley

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I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages. Votes: 1

Paul Smith

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When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems. Votes: 1

Tom Hanks

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12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent. Votes: 1

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A lot of people who didn't understand the need for civilians to bear arms on Sept. 10 were pretty clear on the issue by Sept. 12. Votes: 1

Tim Slagle

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My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden. Votes: 1

Jeff Sessions

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...it's great! I used it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) to restore the finish of my 370/12/RM and I love the way it turned out!.. Votes: 1

Roger McGuinn

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Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. Votes: 1

H. L. Mencken

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I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie? Votes: 1

Jimmy Kimmel

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If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist. Votes: 1

Ed Koch

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After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her. Votes: 1

Dolly Parton

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I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me. Votes: 1

Macaulay Culkin

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If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again. Votes: 1

Suzanne Collins

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Corbin Bleu was my first kiss in life. I was 12, and he was, like, my first kiss for TV... It was on the lips! Votes: 1

Keke Palmer

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When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that. Votes: 1

Anna Kendrick

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Corbin Bleu was my first kiss in life. I was 12, and he was, like, my first kiss for TV It was on the lips! Votes: 1

Keke Palmer

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May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late. Votes: 1

George Washington

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My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team." I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed." Then I had to run 12 laps. Votes: 1

Lev L. Spiro

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By trying to live Christmas 12 months a year, we CAN make this world a better place to live - for others and for ourselves. Votes: 1

Mary Kay Ash

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We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12. Votes: 1

Chuck Comeau

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I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time. Votes: 1

Paulo Coelho

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I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career. Votes: 1

Allen Johnson

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I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water. Votes: 1

Philippe Petit

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I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was. Votes: 1

Li Ka-shing

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I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion. Votes: 1

Anderson Silva

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Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds. Votes: 1

Adrien Broner

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I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life. Votes: 1

Johnny Cash

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I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that. Votes: 1

Yoko Ono

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I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place. Votes: 1

Greg Kinnear

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I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country. Votes: 1

Scott Ritter

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Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story. Votes: 1

Andrew Vachss

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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself. Votes: 1

Carrie Fisher

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You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six. Votes: 1

Christopher Moore

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I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again. Votes: 1

Claire Danes

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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character. Votes: 1

Larry Hagman

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Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack. Votes: 1

Prince Fielder

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My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12. Votes: 1

Dave Grohl

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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person. Votes: 1

Zooey Deschanel

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You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months. Votes: 1

Marco Rubio

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I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete. Votes: 1

Tony Dungy

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I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. Votes: 1

Oscar Isaac

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A man in the crowd asks: Hey Rodney, how'd you get started? Rodney: I was 12 years old, alone in my room, and I got started! Votes: 1

Rodney Dangerfield

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When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great. Votes: 1

Jessica De Gouw

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I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day. Votes: 1

Miranda Cosgrove

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Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record. Votes: 1

Dave Grohl

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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon. Votes: 1

Eddie Trunk

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I had a Shiatsu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy. Votes: 1

Brian Baumgartner

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At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful. Votes: 1

Ahmet Zappa

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When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year. Votes: 1

Wynton Marsalis

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My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up. Votes: 1

David Edwards

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I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13. Votes: 1

Patrick Lussier

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I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked. Votes: 1

Tim Robbins

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They do awful things in the press. One newspaper in England said I was 12 years older than I am, and I was ready to sue. Votes: 1

Diane Ladd

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If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done. Votes: 1

Marcia Cross

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Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to eat, drink and be merry! Votes: 1

Monica Potter

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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Votes: 1

Christopher Morley

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I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard. Votes: 1

Anna Kendrick

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I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy. Votes: 1

Brian Baumgartner

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There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope. Votes: 1

A. R. Rahman

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My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep. Votes: 1

Chris Liddell

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Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years. Votes: 1

Bill Hicks

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When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know. Votes: 1

Laura Bush

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Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. Votes: 1

Joshua Roman

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I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back. Votes: 1

Jacki Weaver

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I've always said I'd rather see a club that's won 10 or 12 in a row than a club that's lost 10 or 12 in a row because they're tougher. Votes: 1

Jack McKeon

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I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early. Votes: 1

Cynthia Nixon

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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds. Votes: 1

Lance Armstrong

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I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me. Votes: 1

Summer Sanders

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Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. â¥ Votes: 1

Susan Branch

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I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world. Votes: 1

Penn Jillette

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Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom. Votes: 1

Elzhi

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I think I was almost 12, so I knew who George C. Scott was, but if I could work with George C. Scott now, I'd be so pumped. Votes: 1

Paul Dano

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Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations. Votes: 1

Eva Longoria

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First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. Votes: 1

Gene Simmons

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I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again. Votes: 1

Maria Sharapova

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Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it. Votes: 1

Britta Phillips

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I have a staff of 12 people, so it's easy for them to handle all the management and the day to day at the company while I'm directing. Votes: 1

Chris Stokes

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A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone. Votes: 1

Chi Chi Rodriguez

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Who hasn't made mistakes? I once french kissed a dog at a party to try to impress what turned out to be a very tall 12 year old. Votes: 1

LIZ

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I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. Votes: 1

Steve Lacy

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When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do. Votes: 1

Paul Oakenfold

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I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music. Votes: 1

Charles Frazier

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I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity. Votes: 1

Caroline Winberg

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I am so happy, each and every day that I come to set. Some days, I'll be there 12 hours, and it feels like five minutes have gone by. Votes: 1

Fiona Gubelmann

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Don't get hung up on the size. If you feel bad about yourself because a 12 is what fits, take a Sharpie, and write '6' on the label. Votes: 1

Stacy London

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That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me. Votes: 1

Danny Gatton

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I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot. Votes: 1

Lauren Holiday

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The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug. Votes: 1

Robert Plant

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Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

Kenneth H. Cooper

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When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.

Rob Reiner

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I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Jamie Foxx

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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Larry Hagman

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No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

Rowan Atkinson

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I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

Christian Louboutin

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Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.

Clive Sinclair

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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

Pat Metheny

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My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.

Jamie Cullum

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Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

John Grogan

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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

Adam Savage

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Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.

Rick Riordan

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Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.

Kirsty Gallacher

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The very first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Crazy' when I was 11 or 12 with my best girlfriends - we had a girl band. It was about loving a guy who everyone else thought you were crazy for being into.

Tove Lo

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I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

Isla Fisher

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Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.

Crystal Bowersox

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I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.

Crystal Bowersox

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Our 2015 financial performance will continue to be driven by our Home Robot business. Home Robot revenue is expected to grow 10% to 12% in 2015 and comprise 90% of total company revenue.

Colin Angle

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I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

Brion James

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My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

Jonny Lang

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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

Taylor Swift

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The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot of artists. I have a beautiful deck that looks over the canyon and Los Angeles on one side, so it's very pretty at night. It's a great opportunity to catch up with friends.

Sofia Milos

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Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.

Jane Leavy

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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

Maya Angelou

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I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilbert comics at the time, and I guess the two kind of got fused in my mind. I've always imagined God as an irrational, distractible boss. It's my best explanation for our planet.

Simon Rich

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I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.

Zach Galligan

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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Julian Bond

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The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

Deborra-Lee Furness

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I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

Ismail Kadare

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I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

January Jones

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My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father.

Gertrude B. Elion

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Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

Lois Lowry

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However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

Mike Fitzpatrick

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I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

Robert Griffin III

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I miss my parents a lot. I obviously don't see them loads anyway because they live up north. But knowing that they're only a couple of hours away is a lot different than knowing that they're 12 hours away.

Harry Styles

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I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.

Christian Louboutin

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My Meema, her favorite show was 'Dallas.' She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she's looking down on me going, 'Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.'s son?'

Josh Henderson

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I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

Jo Nesbo

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I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.

Akhil Sharma

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For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

Ken Mehlman

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I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.

Philippe Petit

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I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

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The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old.

Conan Stevens

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Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'

David Harsanyi

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Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

Jarvis Cocker

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Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Whitfield Diffie

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I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

Jim Courier

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We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again you go to China, even Mexico, Brazil the education systems are valued - ours are not in this country at K-12 level. It's amazing how that change has transpired in my lifetime.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

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I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.

Max Brooks

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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

Samantha Power

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There's nothing more romantic after not seeing your husband for four months than to have our first night back together, on a Broadway stage, with 12 million people watching.

Deborra-Lee Furness

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I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

Randy Houser

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I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

Megyn Kelly

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In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

Julian Baggini

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I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

Steve Vai

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My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

Denis Leary

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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

Questlove

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I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

John Gokongwei

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I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

Kevin J. Anderson

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For any reporter, education is a topic where everything else - money, politics, et cetera - intersects. I have four kids in K through 12, so I'm knee-deep in it. I'm really interested in the philosophy behind it all. Should you just memorize your multiplication tables, or should you understand the concept behind them?

Soledad O'Brien

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I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

Ruth J. Simmons

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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.

Rowan Atkinson

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Sometimes when I watch a TV season, your favorite shows die quickly. And then sometimes it's not your favorite, and they live on for 12 years.

David Spade

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I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Matt Reeves

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Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

Amber Benson

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It's funny: over time, if you're fortunate, you build a nice career, and you have these interesting moments, and I would not, looking back, trade any of them - 'Red Tails,' '12 Years a Slave' and 'Undercover Brother.'

John Ridley

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When I think of the future, I think of my 15 year old son Connor and my 12 year old daughter Meghan. I worry about their future because your kids are as important to you as mine are to me. And I am unwilling to leave our children with so much debt.

Kevin McCarthy

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I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.

Tyler Cowen

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I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.

Jenny Lewis

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I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It's not on any map, so unless you know it's there, you won't find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It's great!

Olesya Rulin

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It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.

Edward Burns

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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Jack Ma

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I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

Barack Obama

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When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.

Jordin Sparks

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I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

Emeril Lagasse

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I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12.

Seinabo Sey

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I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.

Asif Ali Zardari

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Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.

Joe Paterno

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We're extremely excited to see more than 500,000 friends around the globe be added within the first 12 hours of launching Friends on Poptropica. The reaction has been extremely positive from fans, and we're proud to bring a completely safe friends offering to kids on our virtual world.

Jeff Kinney

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All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

P. J. O'Rourke

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We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet.

Kyle Chandler

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Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

Wes Anderson

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I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.

Walter Murch

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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

Natasha Lyonne

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When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thirteen.' I just really liked movies that showed an extreme range in acting. That's what made me want to become an actress.

Leven Rambin

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At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

Peter Jurasik

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I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

Eli Broad

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My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Steve Earle

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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Carrie Fisher

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I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

Katherine Heigl

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It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

Ellen Barkin

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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Xavier Becerra

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Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.

Judy Gold

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At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.

Michael Leunig

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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

Jon Scieszka

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I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating.

Holly Madison

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People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It's like speed dating. You've got a fast-track to social intimacy with a whole bunch of people.

Christine Elise

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When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

Joyce Maynard

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I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around a thousand kids. All smart. We had a strict dress code. If you wore blue jeans to school, they sent you home.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

Natasha Bedingfield

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I was at Pepperdine University in Malibu, and during my sophomore year, I played a dying burn victim on 'ER.' The makeup artist put burn makeup all over my body and I couldn't move or eat for 12 hours. I lost 8 pounds that week.

Eric Christian Olsen

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I got my ears pierced when I was 12. I looked up to my older cousin, and he had earrings. Will Smith on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' had the left earring. So I started with the left earring, and then two years later, I got the other one pierced.

Shameik Moore

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Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

Steve Martin

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Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.

Charlotte Church

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On one level, of course, the notion of judging films or books or music against each other is completely ridiculous. Who's to say '12 Years A Slave' is a better film than 'The Wolf of Wall Street'? Or that one album in a certain genre is better than another in a completely different genre?

John Niven

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It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

Stone Gossard

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Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.

Bill Dedman

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Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.

Ellen Malcolm

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I'd read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, 'Please, don't hurt this guy.' That's the key to suspense. It's easy to disgust a reader. It's much harder to make them care.

Mark Billingham

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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.

Abraham Verghese

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The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.'

Rich Sommer

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I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

Roselyn Sanchez

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A couple of websites I've come across credit the 'New York Times' for reporting that 12,000 women a year are arrested for breastfeeding in public. I could not confirm that number with a quick search, but even 1,200 would be too many - or even 12.

David Horsey

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My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.

Jenna Morasca

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When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours.

James Belushi

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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

Al Yankovic

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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

Gary Oldman

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I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.

Miranda Cosgrove

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Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Joyce Maynard

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I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

Zooey Deschanel

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I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who don't follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.

Rila Fukushima

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When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

Robert P. McCulloch

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The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

Kenneth Anger

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I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?

Cara Buono

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Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

Clayton Christensen

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I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'

Lee Child

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Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.

Bar Refaeli

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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early.

Chris Cornell

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I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on - and then I'll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber.

Viswanathan Anand

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I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

Justin Bieber

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In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for a glass of water and then another one of him drinking. And the in-betweener has to do all the drawings that goes between those two. You know it could be 12, 23 whatever in-betweens.

Pete Docter

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With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.

Melissa Rosenberg

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Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds.

Richard Blumenthal

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It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

Isaiah Thomas

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My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know?

Claire Denis

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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Pete Seeger

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I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

Greg Kinnear

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I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.

Eric Holder

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For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.

Stewart Butterfield

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A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.

Joshua Harris

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For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.

Jason Aldean

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John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.

Alex Berenson

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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

Salman Rushdie

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It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles. If you're outside when the sun is overhead, you're going to have dark circles from the sun creating shadows on your face. So no outdoor pictures between 12 and two!

Gisele Bundchen

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Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.

Zach Wamp

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I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.

Eli Manning

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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

Eddie Slovik

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On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

Hugh Mackay

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I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.

Shaquille O'Neal

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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Margaret Atwood

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No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.

Rick Hoffman

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We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.

Bobby Doerr

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I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

Rita Rudner

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First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.

Gene Simmons

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But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

Martin Feldstein

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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

Rafael Nadal

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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

Mario Cuomo

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If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don't know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

Andy Roddick

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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.

Rachel Boston

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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

Feist

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I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

Dennis Quaid

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At age 12, I was on 'Guiding Light,' and I wanted to be accepted by these adults I was working with. I started with the Eat Right for Your Type diet. A friend who was a little older was doing it. I have a perfectionist personality, so I wanted to do the best job I could. I was not eating anything it said not to.

Brittany Snow

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Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.

Richard Virenque

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I've designed since I was 12. The first was when I skated to Carmen, in red and gold and black. I wanted so many frills at that time. It had a lot going on for a little person like me. And I picked out fabrics that didn't stretch. Very uncomfortable.

Sasha Cohen

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Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

Andrew Vachss

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We have a snap of my dad wearing blue eye shadow, which I would always make fun of. When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'

Georgia May Jagger

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An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

Miranda July

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My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

Tyne Daly

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Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.

Brian Skerry

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I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

Ethan Suplee

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In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

Foster Friess

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I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

Jerry Doyle

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I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

Steven Rodney McQueen

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Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.

Eli Broad

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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!

Kari Wahlgren

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African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

Chaka Fattah

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I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

George Thorogood

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SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

Elon Musk

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When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.

Jillian Rose Reed

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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

Gary Johnson

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What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.

Bill Rancic

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I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

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In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

George J. Mitchell

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When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.

Keri Russell

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Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.

Sanford I. Weill

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If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

Anna Popplewell

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You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.

Anna Kournikova

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I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

Bella Heathcote

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Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

Tom Morello

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At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school.

Joyce Banda

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Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

Jack Germond

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I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.

Domenico Dolce

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I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

Steven Spielberg

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Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

Paul Reiser

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I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

Steve Ballmer

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When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.

Hilarie Burton

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I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.

Graham Elliot

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I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.

Joe Paterno

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I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team.

Chris Bauer

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I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there.

Charlotte Rampling

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One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Hugh Jackman

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Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun.

Lewis Black

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I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.

Anna Maxwell Martin

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I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.

Valerie June

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Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

Al Michaels

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Initially, I used to cart coke from the West Melbourne Gasworks -12 tonne a day, 150-pound sacks. I'd come home looking like Al Jolson at the end of the day - white teeth, black face... A good hard day's work.

Lindsay Fox

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When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I knew from that moment that this was for me and this would be with me for the rest of my life.

Hugh Laurie

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I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!

Chloe Sevigny

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I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

Simon Cowell

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I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

Ronnie Montrose

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Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.

Stephen Baker

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I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.

Maria Sharapova

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I've battled my weight since I was 12. My parents took to us to New York once, for a holiday, and there I'd buy fruit loops from a 24x7 shop and sit down with my books. I never played; I wasn't that kind of kid - I just read. I ate chocolates like peanuts. I was 86kg till I was 19.

Sonam Kapoor

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In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

Alexis Korner

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I started using the Internet when I was 12 years old. I would go into chat rooms and flirt. It was the beginning of the Internet for young people.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

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I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Ashwin Sanghi

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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Mahatma Gandhi

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I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

Haylie Duff

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When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.

Dean Karnazes

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I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

Vinnie Jones

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I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kathryn Harrison

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I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted.

Greg Lake

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I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.

Khaled Hosseini

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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

Dan O'Brien

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If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.

Eric McCormack

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My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

Jessica Valenti

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I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

Sebastian Coe

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After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'

James Iha

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I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

Bibhu Mohapatra

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I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.

Kerry Greenwood

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At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

Wilbur Smith

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I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.

Pico Iyer

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I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of 'Morning Joe,' and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon.

Mika Brzezinski

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I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

Ronnie Milsap

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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

Leonard Susskind

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The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings.

Sinqua Walls

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If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

Matt Drudge

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I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

Dick Bruna

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I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

Isla Fisher

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From the age of 12, I had an understanding that singing was something I loved to do more than anything, and I did say to myself, 'Why not?' But there were definitely some doubts along the way.

Patty Griffin

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Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home.

Reid Scott

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I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.

Jake Johnson

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Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.

Cate Blanchett

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My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.

Rashida Jones

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Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

Jack Dee

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I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

Charles Frazier

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The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

Walter Murch

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When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

Wes Anderson

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I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.

Lillete Dubey

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I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.

Emily Ratajkowski

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Listen, I am such a nerd. I'm not one of those girls that goes, 'Ha, ha, hee, hee. I'm a nerd.' No, no, no - my brain mentality is the same as a 12-year-old little boy. The video games that I play, the things that I like to watch - I'm a Trekkie.

Mila Kunis

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I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Taylor Swift

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Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Tom Hodgkinson

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I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

Sidney Poitier

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You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.

Corbin Bernsen

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People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Mitchel Musso

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I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

Chris Webber

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I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return.

Cobie Smulders

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Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

John Blair

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Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

Laurence D. Fink

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For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

Linda Hunt

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When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

James Ellroy

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I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like 'Vampire Diaries' and 'Pretty Little Liars,' which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid.

Torrey DeVitto

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In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

Tim Holden

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Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.

Karisma Kapoor

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I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

Carrie Fisher

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In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

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I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and 13. I felt really at home on the surface.

Paula Radcliffe

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My big advert was for ketchup. I come home from school, cook my brother and sister their dinner, ride my bike in the garden. Remember that one? People cried at that advert. It won awards. I was 12.

Russell Tovey

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If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

Janet Napolitano

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I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.

Dennis Quaid

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No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

Roger McGuinn

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My memories are of denim. I remember being 12 in my Levi's. Wow! As a teenager in Milan, I was really fascinated by Fiorucci, but at the time I was not rich enough to buy. Oh my God! I made a collection of Fiorucci shopping bags, and my mother, she still has them and my stickers, and now I invite Elio Fiorucci to our shows.

Stefano Gabbana

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I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Birdy

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In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

Burt Rutan

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It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

Jay-Z

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I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a fishery manager. In hindsight, I think acting could be a better route.

Tom Felton

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And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

John Hickenlooper

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There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that's a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar - cookies, desserts, those sorts of things.

Diana Nyad

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I was mugged when I was 12. I had a portable radio, and I ran into this building and these two guys came in and hit me, busted me up and took the radio. After that I was very paranoid and I started taking kung fu and karate. But I didn't want to fight.

Freddie Prinze

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I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that's the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

Justin Timberlake

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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

Nancy Meyers

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Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

Andy Murray

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I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

Ezra Koenig

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When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

Todd Phillips

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My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.

Karolyn Grimes

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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

Samuel L. Jackson

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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

J. G. Ballard