Dolly Parton Quotes
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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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.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
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Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.
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Patience is the secret to good food.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'
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I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.
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It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
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I have white hair now, but a lot of it, and I'm still very glamorous, and so I won't disappoint, I hope! I'll still be wearing the tight leather trousers and high-heel boots, regardless of what age!
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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
