Dolly Parton Quotes
Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.
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I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.
