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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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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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.
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We've had Muslims in America since George Washington. And we've had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particular well-known one with Muhammad Ali.
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I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.
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While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.
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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.
