Dolly Parton Quotes
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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I think a superhero would be awesome to play.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
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I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
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Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
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Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
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'A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.'
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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.
