Dolly Parton Quotes
I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.
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Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.
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'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
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As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.
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The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.
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I chose my own path because that was the only way.
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I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.
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It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
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The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.
