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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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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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.
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It's the right thing to do, ... We've said for two Congresses we want to deliver a prescription drug package. We're at the point now that we have to make sure policy and politics are married up, that we can deliver to the American people what we said is the right thing to do.
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I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.
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Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
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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.
