Dolly Parton Quotes

I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.

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• I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

  

  Oliver Reed
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• We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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• The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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• As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

  

  Zach Braff
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• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
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• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Balance

• I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I just like being on stage and making people happy.

  

  Madison Pettis
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• If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.

  

  Ilana Glazer
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• Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
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• The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unreality

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

  

  Al Stewart
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• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  

  James Whistler
  • Heaven

• I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Country
  • Money
  • Sick

• I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work.

  

  Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • Work

• I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Everything
  • Deny

• It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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• Two of the three men, who were imprisoned, Norman Butler and Robert 15x Johnson, convicted and given life sentences, I'm absolutely convinced were innocent. The real murderers of Malcolm X have not been caught or punished.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Life
  • Men
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• I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

  

  Frank Langella
  • Long

• I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.

  

  Dolly Parton
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