Dolly Parton Quotes
Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
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When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
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When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'
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I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
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I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.
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She reinvents herself from album to album. I reinvent myself week to week. I get quite bored with things and I don't want to let down my fans.
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When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed.
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The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I'm not big on game shows.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.
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Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
