Dolly Parton Quotes
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.
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Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
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You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.
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I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
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Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
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I'm not really worried about writer's block.
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The more you do, the more you think, the better you get.
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I show people how to build their own immortality device.
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I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
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I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.
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For me, a snack is supposed to be unhealthy! I like having chips or popcorn when I'm on set.
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Chocolates and cakes are the biggest problem I have. That is why I punish myself at the gym because I know I can't stop myself from eating what I want. I call it eating your cake and having it.
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I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
