Dolly Parton Quotes
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We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.
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I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.
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What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
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Practice random acts of kindness... and watch Mom!
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If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.
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Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
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Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.
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There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would.
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Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I’m going to show you who I actually am.
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Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.
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A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.
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[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.
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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.
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Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.
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I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.
