Dolly Parton Quotes
Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
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I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.
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Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
