Dolly Parton Quotes
I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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Back in 1993, I was studying in Delhi, and I had a girlfriend. I had never touched a girl before that in my entire life. One day, I decided to go out with her to a garden. We were sitting beside each other, and I just glanced around to see if anyone was looking at us, and I put my hand over hers. I thought love started in this way.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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Honolulu, Hawaii: (At a luau) '...a unique native stunt though the Hawaiian food we were made to eat was too revolting for words....One got rather tired of the native songs & longed for some of our tunes' (14 April 1920)
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Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
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If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time.
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'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.
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I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
