The Dirty Dozen Quotes

#1. My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'

Jared Kushner

#2. 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

#3. Be sure to buy organic versions of the 'dirty dozen:' the fruits and vegetables that, when grown conventionally, are loaded with pesticides and chemicals: Grapes, apples, lettuce, bell peppers, carrots, nectarines, peaches, strawberries, pears, kale, and celery.

Suzanne Somers

#4. 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

#5. Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

Clint Walker

#6. The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.

Bridgit Mendler

#7. Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It's about our lives in America and it's about the ends of our lives and it's about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before.

Garrison Keillor

#8. So I guess I'm ready to ... start dating. I want to get married again. Have a family." Ethan leans forward, causing Fat Mikey to jump off his lap. "I see," he says. I look at the floor for a second. "Right." Risking a peek at Ethan, I add, "So we should probably stop sleeping together.

Kristan Higgins

#9. Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women who tell their stories in the first person, nor have I ever thought of myself as being like her.

Barbara Pym

#10. Before long four dozen balls lay scattered at the base of the fence, a harvest of dirty white fruit.

Chad Harbach

#11. Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

Mary Lou Williams

#12. Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Phil Jackson

#13. Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than a master of one.

Adam Savage

#14. He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water still in it, and he says: "I am a slave!" Every day he says it, not once, but a dozen times. And then he takes his guitar from the wall and sings.

Henry Miller

#15. For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#16. Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), Lack of breath.

Aminatta Forna

#17. Progress is learning to control your world.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. Tucker, to make anything work, from meat loaf to a marriage, there are two things you have to do. Forgive and continue.

M.E. Kerr

#19. Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

Jamaica Kincaid

#20. When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

Jonathan Cain

#21. I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.

Michele Bachmann

#22. I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.

Keith Richards