Dolly Parton Quotes

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

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• The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

  

  Randall Terry
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• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
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• And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

  

  Beatrice Wood
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• Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

  

  Fanny Brice
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• I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

  

  Ed Harris
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• I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

  

  Oscar Peterson
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• Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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• Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, 'You're a disgusting, drunken mess.' And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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• Do what you love, and what you're proud of, and you're fuckin' bulletproof. You're fuckin' bulletproof. If you do what you absolutely believe to be right, then you're fuckin' bulletproof.

  

  Craig Ferguson
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• I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
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• I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
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• I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.

  

  Don Lemon
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• I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.

  

  Phil Gramm
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• I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.

  

  John Gokongwei

• America faces grave threats both here and abroad, and the FBI, in concert with its federal, state, and local partners continues to work steadfastly to prevent and hold accountable those responsible for these threats.

  

  Christopher Wray
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  • America
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• At first, social media was just about networking. But now that I have to network, I make sure that every platform makes money for me. You can do something on Facebook.

  

  Karen Civil
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• When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.

  

  Ben Carson
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• YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor McGonagall didn’t even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy’s direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

  

  Dolly Parton
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