Dolly Parton Quotes
So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.
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In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-year process, they have to know that it's not just Shake Shack that wants to buy it. They have to have other buyers who are willing to pay more for all natural.
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My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
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We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.
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My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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I didn't have any pets growing up.
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So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.
