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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This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.
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It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.
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I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who don't know how to control themselves. They're feeble-minded and can't engage or articulate ideas. That's a narrative they keep trying to paint.
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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.