Dolly Parton Quotes
I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.
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I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
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We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
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'It's a little Anxious,' he said to himself, 'to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.'
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My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
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After your high-handed improvement(?) of 'Neo-plasticism' any co-operation is quite impossible for me.. .For the rest sans rancune - Piet Mondriaan.
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I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.
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And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
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But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.
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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
