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.
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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.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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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.
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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.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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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.
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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.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
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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.
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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.
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I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.
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It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?
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I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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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.
