Dolly Parton Quotes
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.
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The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walked along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discourse.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
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I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
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If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
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I'm a grandfather now, and when I watch children's shows with my two-year-old grandson, Arlo, I'm delighted because it's completely non-traditional casting. It feels like a utopia. How the world should be.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.
