Dolly Parton Quotes
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
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The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
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Enthusiasm is something so positive.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.
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An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment.
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I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.
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I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.
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We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.
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Everything that happens in America happens in New York.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
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The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.
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I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.
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I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.
