Dolly Parton Quotes
I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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What is the world coming to?
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I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.
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I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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They say that a martini is like a woman's breast. One ain't enough and three is too many.
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I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
