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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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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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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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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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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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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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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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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Being a teenager is hard.
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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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The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.
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Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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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.
