Dolly Parton Quotes
I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.
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The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, The body, it touches. The captain and his menAre one and the sailor and the sea are one.
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For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
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When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.
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It isn't a killer deal to drop 2 percent. Only if it's a huge holding. But the bigger the holding, the more market risk there is. I wouldn't bank on that.
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It's been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to 'Beautiful Children,' not only from reviewers but also from the people coming out to my readings.
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I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.
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I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.
