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 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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• So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

  

  Betty Buckley
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• There are people who believe that a Dolce & Gabbana T-shirt is more stylish than a supermarket one, and there are people who believe the opposite. There is room for everyone.

  

  Domenico Dolce
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• If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.

  

  Bob Bartlett
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• It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.

  

  Lily Cole
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• It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football one day, and now I'm playing in the best conference, and I truly believe that.

  

  Chad Kelly
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• Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.

  

  Satya Nadella
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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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