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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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
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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
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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
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• The sharp employ the sharp.

  

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• Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world to be as stress-free as possible. And if golf helps fade the psychic heat from the job, by all means tee it up often, Mr. President.

  

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• If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.

  

  Jason David Frank
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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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