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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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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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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While it can be challenging for women with disruptive, technology-based ideas to acquire significant funding, in my experience, once I was able to raise that funding, I was met with droves of people offering to help me fulfill my dreams.
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I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.
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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.
