Dolly Parton Quotes
You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use the information therein to successfully invest in property.
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Look, we all know how hard it is for us to - I'm going to speak for myself - find a still photo of yourself that you like. Like how many times do people send photos and you're like, "Oh burn it."
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You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.
