Dolly Parton Quotes
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.
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I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.
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Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
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Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
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My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.
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I enjoyed working at McDonald's.
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
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Boston is pretty infamous for race relations.
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!
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I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.
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I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.
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If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.
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Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.
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The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.
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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
