Dolly Parton Quotes
Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.Dolly Parton
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
Harry Browne -
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Gail Sheehy -
I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
Patricia Heaton -
Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
Mandy Patinkin -
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine -
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
Bahman Ghobadi
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb -
Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
D. W. Griffith -
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
Garrison Keillor -
I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
Rachel Zoe -
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
Barbara Bush -
I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
Action Bronson
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
Jack McDevitt -
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
Adam Cohen -
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
Zara Phillips -
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
Nancy Pearcey -
The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
Caitlin Moran -
The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.
Pope Benedict XVI
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One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.
Bindi Irwin -
You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one
Umair Haque -
It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.
Alexander McCall Smith -
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips -
When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.
Joseph Brodsky -
Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.
Dolly Parton