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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. -- Brad Pitt
One rose says more than the dozen. -- Wendy Craig
Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation. -- Clint Walker
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. -- Elizabeth I
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. -- Lope de Vega
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. -- Helen Rowland
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. -- Vince Lombardi
My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.' -- Jared Kushner
Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match -- Joshua Caleb
For me doing Cheaper By The Dozen 2 was great because I did have a lot bigger part in that movie and every situation is different. -- Carmen Electra
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen. -- Donald Sutherland
I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that. -- Bill Kreutzmann
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But actors with political views are a dime a dozen. -- Tom Hanks
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free. -- Douglas Horton
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless. -- Mary Kay Ash
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not. -- Dave Ramsey
There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things! -- Jim Rohn
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all? -- Julian Casablancas
Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on. -- Chris Frantz
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. -- Walter Isaacson
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. -- John le Carre
I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong. -- George R. R. Martin
In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?' -- Maya Angelou
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. -- Malcolm Forbes
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen. -- Steven Spielberg
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. -- J. B. Priestley
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health. -- Paul Stamets
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. -- Jared Diamond
In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions. -- Noam Chomsky
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. -- Henry David Thoreau
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.' -- Bernie Siegel
Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. -- Bill Gates
I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me. -- Mohsin Hamid
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness. -- Elon Musk
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. -- Galen Rowell
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. -- Warren Buffett
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. -- Russell Baker
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own. -- Louis Agassiz
Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve. -- John Piper
To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. -- Drew Houston
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball. -- Raymond Chandler
When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin' out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear. -- Justin Chon
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. -- George Herbert
Im as country as a dozen eggs. -- Elvin Bishop
Ive done a dozen or two dozen infomercials. -- Matthew Lesko
I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials. -- Matthew Lesko
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But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen. -- Krist Novoselic
I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff. -- Mickey Rourke
Actors with political views are a dime a dozen. -- Tom Hanks
One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones. -- Napoleon Hill
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans. -- Bob Dylan
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts. -- Frank Herbert
In 20 years of comedy, I've probably had a dozen good points. -- Doug Stanhope
Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses -- J. Patrick Lewis
My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb. -- John Keats
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. -- Brendan Behan
Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I like my men like I like my roses by the dozen. -- Barbara La Marr
If you've got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. -- Michael Lewis
It was six of a half and one dozen of the other. -- Danny Higginbotham
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that -- Dean Kamen
Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen. -- Douglas Leone
We are each a dozen people who were all the same child. -- Robert Breault
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. -- Mark Twain
I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe. -- Dick Trickle
Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless. -- Earl Blaik
With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on. -- John Banville
Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen -- Des Lynam
Hurry it up, I could hang a dozen men while your fooling around. -- Carl Panzram
Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess -- Robert Jordan
One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone. -- Ben Chifley
We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen -- Tom Izzo
A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen. -- Caroline Gordon
One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
For every curiosity headline that succeed in getting results, a dozen will fail. -- John Caples
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. -- James A. Michener
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. -- John Edensor Littlewood
I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. -- Nate Silver
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. -- Cecil B. DeMille
One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. -- Richard Francis Burton
Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find. -- Charlie Finley
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. -- Jonathan Swift
If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones. -- Mickey Melchiondo
I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others. -- Joanne Greenberg
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches. -- Jim Butcher
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. -- Larry Niven
A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue. -- Tom Robinson
I do splurge on diaper bags. I have a half dozen in different colors and styles. -- Elisabeth Hasselbeck
It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep. -- Charles M. Schulz
There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them. -- Ivan Sutherland
You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people. -- Mohja Kahf
A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. -- Jane Austen
I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet -- Debbie Cowens
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. -- Jack London
I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them. -- John Gierach
Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving. -- Smokey Robinson
Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley. -- Ally Carter
A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour. -- Carl Shapiro
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments. -- David Bronstein
It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats. -- Neil Gaiman
There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting. -- Graydon Carter
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs. -- Don Herold
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two. -- Michael Bierut
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. -- C. S. Lewis
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. -- Horace Mann
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? -- John James Audubon
Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill. -- Groucho Marx
A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. -- Giorgio Morandi
I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end. -- Bob Uecker
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. -- Curt Sachs
Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows. -- Budd Schulberg
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How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids. -- Anne Nicol Gaylor
I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. -- Henry David Thoreau

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