12 Years Quotes

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

Michelle Obama

#2. He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

Tony Kornheiser

#3. If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it's actually how a lot of stuff happens.

Tony Hsieh

#4. I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

Nicholas Jarecki

#5. The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.

Marilyn Manson

#6. All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the last 12 years of his life, he lived as caretaker of an orange grove. There, on 18 acres, my brother collected cars and trucks and motorcycles.

Susan Straight

#7. The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs to accommodate this thrust and no dollars for education or jobs or social services ... we have become a repository but no beneficiary of federal actions.

Sharon Pratt Kelly

#8. It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.

Amanda Peterson

#9. I came to this country when I was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.

Cristina Saralegui

#10. I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.

Lupita Nyong'o

#11. I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something ... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.

Corey Taylor

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

Ann Coulter

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

Shaquille O'Neal

#14. Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music

Jay Sean

#15. I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,' to 'The Butler,' to 'The Best Man,' to 'Ride Along,' to even 'Think Like a Man' from last year - these movies are just good movies.

Kevin Hart

#16. I switched from indoor to beach I had been playing indoor for 12 years. And, to be honest, to make a living indoors you have to go overseas. I am such a family girl and just wanted to be home, so that didn't appeal to me.

Kerri Walsh

#17. We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

Michael Stipe

#18. If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.

Christopher Monckton

#19. I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play
she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

Toby Keith

#20. Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

James Thurber

#21. I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.

Aaron Douglas

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If you moved your hips and the girls screamed, you were getting it right. Who wouldn't want to be like Elvis or Jim Morrison!

Ricky Martin

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

Dov Davidoff

#26. I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

Anil Kapoor

#27. Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.

Eric Idle

#28. I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.

Rebekah Brooks

#29. To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.

Noah Feldman

#30. They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

Dennis Eckersley

#31. My life, since I was 12-years-old, has revolved around some sort of sport, mainly cycling, so when I'm unable to ride my bike I just don't know what to do with myself.

Magnus Backstedt

#32. I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Mose Allison

#33. If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

William Devane

#34. Wrestling is pretty DIY. I've been doing it for 12 years, completely on my own. It's like being in a band or running a zine - except that I get to kick people in the face.

CM Punk

#35. 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

#36. I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

Reed Hastings

#37. I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

Alan Dershowitz

#38. Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

Phil Klay

#39. 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

#40. I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.

Buzz Osborne

#41. I started playing music when I was 12 years old.

Chris Jericho

#42. 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

#43. He tried to fool the United Nations and did for 12 years by hiding these weapons. And so, it's going to take time to find them. But we know he had them, and whether he destroyed them, moved them or hid them, we're going to find out the truth.

George W. Bush

#44. I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

Forest Whitaker

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

Julian Bond

#46. I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

Jonathan Davis

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

Richard D. Zanuck

#48. He's 78 years old ... He's not the same Orrin Hatch I knew 12 years ago.

Scott Howell

#49. When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

Ryan Seacrest

#50. I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

A.E. Van Vogt

#51. 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.

Caroline Winberg

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

Lee Majors

#53. 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

#54. I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.

Rachel Platten

#55. 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

#56. I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

Monica Denise Brown

#57. 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

#58. When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.

Tyra Banks

#59. I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.

Dan Quayle

#60. When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.

Brandon Jennings

#61. I know first hand what its like to be called names and to be affected by things. They would call me fat, they would call me promiscuous in different words. At the time, when I was 12-years-old, that was like the end of the world. To me, bullying is one of my biggest platforms. Lets change the world.

Demi Lovato

#62. 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.

Steve Lacy

#63. New Rule: 12 years after 9/11 and admits yet another debate whether to bomb yet another Muslim country. America must stop asking the question: Why do they hate us?

Bill Maher

#64. O. J. Simpson drew bigger crowds, but most of his admirers were around 12 years old. Two-thirds of them were black and many looked like fugitives from the Credit Bureau's garnishee file.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Alexei Sayle

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

Damon Wayans

#69. Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.

Casey Stengel

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

Joe Torre

#71. I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

Mike Shinoda

#72. But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.

Vince Gill

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

Jenna Morasca

#74. I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

Harrison Ford

#75. 12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

#76. Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream - I think it's fantastic. The same girl has been doing my make-up for 12 years and she says my skin's never looked so good.

Gaby Roslin

#77. 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

#78. I don't feel 25 years old. Sometimes I feel I'm 12 years old. Sometimes I feel I'm 50 years old.

Victoria Azarenka

#79. I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.

Simon Cowell

#80. 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

#81. I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.

Kevin Kwan

#82. I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

Denis Leary

#83. All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Kate Adie

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

Carroll O'Connor

#86. I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old.

Derek Hough

#87. I'm addicted to routine. I don't know if that's because I moved around so much as child - by the time I was 12 years old, I had lived in about 10 different places. But I like going to the theater at a certain time.

Sarah Paulson

#88. 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

#89. 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.

Diane Ladd

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

Edward Zander

#91. 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

#92. Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

Lupita Nyong'o

#93. I was a lawyer for 12 years in New York and Sweden.

Greg Poehler

#94. 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

#95. My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

Donald McKay

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.

Steve Erickson

#99. I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

Roy Ayers

#100. I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.

Samm Levine