Dolly Parton Quotes
I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
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Americans love DON'T. Thou shalt not. The bedrock of received knowledge - the Ten Commandments. The God fearing pioneers who still had a long way to go. GO! DONT GO! GO. FUCK YOU GOD! We're on our way...
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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
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A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
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It's Wheird, there's an H in there. Gotta hit that H otherwise they think I'm some sort of a kook!
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The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
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I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.
