Dolly Parton Quotes
I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.
Quotes to Explore
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.
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I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like.
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It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
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We live by our values at Levo. We began by surrounding ourselves with passionate, values-driven people who had their intentions in the right place, and learned that like attracted like.
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I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people.
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We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways.
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It wasn't until the second half of my first year that I realized you have to try to make friends and meet people at Harvard; the chances don't come to you.
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Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.
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Who directed the video 'No More Drama' for Mary J. Blige. I was actually kickin' with J. Lo talking about some music that we're gonna put together, and we were talking about great directors. She said she really, really liked that video and was wondering who directed it, so yeah, I looked it up!
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.
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If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
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I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.
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I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.
