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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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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My maternal grandmother would sit, before binge-watching existed, and watch 'Poirot' until the cows came home. You couldn't pull her away from it.
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Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.
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When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.
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My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.
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I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.
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Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities, and how much money they can make.
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George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
