Dolly Parton Quotes
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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I've been very lucky.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
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The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.
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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
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Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.
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Storms make trees take deeper roots.
