Dolly Parton Quotes
People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.
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There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.
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I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.
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I feel very honoured and humbled to have people think, 'If Yuna can break through, then why can't we?' It takes a lot of work, but I tell people to just have that focus. Always be humble and a learner, practice and do research.
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You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.
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That's one of the perks of my job, is getting to see what the Internet does.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.
