Dolly Parton Quotes
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
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If America is about anything, she is about freedom. We have seen in the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security and at our airports and in the color-coded alerts the beginning of the erosion of that freedom.
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
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I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.
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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
