Dolly Parton Quotes
When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
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Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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I like Chanel mascara because it has the darkest black. For my eyebrows, I brush them through to keep them groomed and in place. And for my lips, I wear lip balm. I use Kiehl's Lip Balm #1. It's really helpful during fashion week. If I keep up with these three things, I feel like I look very fresh, young, and natural.
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
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I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali brings out the best in me, both personally and professionally. I think we have a Karmic connection and I hope he'll agree!
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I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.
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I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.
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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
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Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.
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Hope is a pocket of possibility.
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I'm not the person who looks back or looks forward. I try to live in what is now.
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When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.
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When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
