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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The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
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What shall we say of the Intelligence that plans all this? Can the Creator be less than the creature? Shall we not say that Intelligence is indestructible, and its measure is its Power to adapt means to ends? Intelligence, Matter, Energy - nature's trinity in her manifestations.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.
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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.
