Dolly Parton Quotes
I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
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'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.
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Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
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I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?
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I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.
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There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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I do Pilates twice a week; I hike and I go to the gym. My days of being that hardcore-workout person are over. Don't get me wrong, I still want to be the hot mom!
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As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.
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I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.
