Dolly Parton Quotes

I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  

  Major Owens
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• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
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• Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

  

  Nancy McKeon
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• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
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• I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

  

  Gary Sheffield
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• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Growing
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• I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is thus everywhere and nowhere. There are a number of sites connected with his life, but none attract hordes of travellers the way Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre in London draw Shakespeare aficionados.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Theatre

• The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth.

  

  Randall Jarrell
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• Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!

  

  Vanity

• In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

  

  Jack Welch
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• There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
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• I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

  

  Scott Stapp
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• Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.

  

  Andie MacDowell
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• I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

  

  Paula Pell
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• I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.

  

  Peter Capaldi
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• Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
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• As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.

  

  Kristian Bush Sugarland
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• The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

  

  Larry David
  • People
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• I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

  

  Dolly Parton
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