Dolly Parton Quotes
I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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The script is just a blueprint.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
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With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.
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On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan. And what I wanted to do is, because as I was going up and I am this Chinese-American, I wanted to represent Chinese people from the major population centers around the world where there are a lot of Chinese people. And so, I wanted to bring something from each of those places and so it really wasn't a political thing and I hope people saw it that way. I was born here, I was raised in the U.S., and I'm an American first, but also very proud of my heritage.
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Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
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It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
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Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict.
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I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.
