Dolly Parton Quotes
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.
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Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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The big talent is persistence.
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I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.
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I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.
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Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.
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I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.
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God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
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I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair
