Dolly Parton Quotes
George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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What we really mean by free will... is the visualizing of alternatives and making a choice between them. ...the central problem of human consciousness depends on this ability to imagine.
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I hope the young guys who are playing today realize what they have been given and will take it upon themselves to give back in return.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
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Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.
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I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
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It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
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George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
