Dolly Parton Quotes
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
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I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.
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We have a saying in the union: 'If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possibility is that he is a duck.' That is the way with a Communist. If the guy does everything that the party does, the prospects are very good that he is a party member or fellow traveler.
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Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
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I drank too much, only champagne.
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The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.
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It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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It was strange: I never had an interest in school because from an early age I knew the only thing I wanted to do was to play music! So I didn't feel so bad not going into school when I was supposed to be there - why do I need Latin, geography, physical education, etc., and to get beaten on a daily basis?
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Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest.
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I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.
