Dolly Parton Quotes
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.
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I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
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The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame.
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I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
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The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is disappointed in love, he does not commit suicide. When loved ones die, he doesn’t despair; when he loses a coveted contest, he doesn’t falter; when war and destruction dissipate his future, he doesn’t sink into a depression. He lives above his world and never loses sight of the goal of his salvation.
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When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
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I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.
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You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.
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I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
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The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
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Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.
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I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.