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"Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of."
"Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts."
"I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin."
"But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation."
"A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment."
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"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without."
"As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work."
"Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation."
"Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included."
"Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that."
"There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!"
"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."
"Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare."
"I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way."
"Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place."
"A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it."
"Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned."
"Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs."
"When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."
"Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star."
"I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans."
"I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation."
"I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am."
"There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family."
"The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart."
