Dolly Parton Quotes
I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, 'Ugh, kids!' Maybe that will change when I get older.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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Everyone has class, one class or another.
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People never notice anything.
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You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.
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The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
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The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
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Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
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Paul Volcker is a tremendous hero with the Federal Reserve system and for the American economy. He took very tough actions and helped to break the back of double-digit inflation at a time when it had to be done.
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I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.
