Dolly Parton Quotes
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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The first wealth is health.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
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Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.
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Wildflowers don't care where they grow.
