Dolly Parton Quotes
If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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If you're biking more and walking more, you're going to be happier and healthier. And you'll probably feel better if you take out less garbage, as most of us feel pretty crappy about that. But I don't think we can mistake those acts for doing what it takes to address a crisis at a global level.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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I have a pig valve.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
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One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.
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I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.
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It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.
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If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.
