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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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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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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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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I remember the days of auditioning and being nervous and so I really didn't want to make people have to jump through hoops to do auditions and be nervous and make them more nervous. I kind of wanted to hire everybody and find something for everybody.
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There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk... Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.
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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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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.
