Dolly Parton Quotes

After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Dolly Parton

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• Obviously, the real test of these regulations will be their implementation, ... It is absolutely critical that the Air Force leadership ensure that these regulations are well understood and strictly enforced, especially at the Air Force Academy.

  

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• Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

  

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• Paying attention is not just analyzing carefully; rather, it is a constructive act... What we build has only the dimensions we have given it.

  

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• The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes.

  

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• So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Moon
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• You! You are so lucky you're dead.

  

  Kat Richardson
  • Lucky
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• I do like when you find a true personal relationship with any of the characters, you like to make that honest connection. And every once in a while, there's that glimmer where you got that line in where something happens, where you get to really talk.

  

  Jonathan Banks
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• Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

  

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• The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.

  

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• This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

  

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  • History
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• I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.

  

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• I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a movie. I'm like everyone, almost, I go to a movie once a week. I like every kind of film if it’s well made. I’m fine. I’m not a specialist fighting for a genre of film. You just have to follow your instinct.

  

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• Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
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• Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
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• The money is simply not coming. To face to all existing threats, we must spend more, spend better and, above all, spend together.

  

  Javier Solana
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  • Threats

• ...discovering you are not identical with yourself even in the most disturbing and painful way still contains the glimmer, however refracted, of the world to come, where everything is the same but a little different because the past will be citable in all of its moments, including those that from our present present happened but never occurred.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Discovering
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• After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Pedestal
  • Twelve
  • Momma