Dolly Parton Quotes
Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
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As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
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I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.
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Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that in-forms the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.
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In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.
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When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?
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I'm just trying to do my job and my part to make this a team that people respect.
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I feel a special connection to Haiti and the Haitian people.
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Stay away from other people's partners.
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From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.
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I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.
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I will lead a fight against Islamist terrorism at every level.
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It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.
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Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
