Dolly Parton Quotes
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.
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I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!
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I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.
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There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
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As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.
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As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
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About 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in the mouse. Eighty percent have identical, one-to-one counterparts.
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I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
