Dolly Parton Quotes
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
Walter Murch -
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
Ferdinand Marcos -
You measure a government by how few people need help.
Patricia Schroeder -
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
Daniel Boulud -
I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
Natalie Zea
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You have to follow that next step.
Laura Moser -
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
Jack White The White Stripes -
My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.
Tamara Mellon -
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
Tatyana Ali -
I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.
B. D. Wong -
If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.
Cristela Alonzo
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
Mason Cooley -
One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
Janez Drnovsek -
It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.
Jim Barksdale -
Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?
Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins -
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
Bodhidharma -
I drive a different car every night.
Alan Mulally
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I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
Larry Hagman -
Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.
Keith Hernandez -
And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
Utada Hikaru -
I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.
Jackie Evancho -
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
John Brunner -
All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
Dolly Parton