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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If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
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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'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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I love to cook. I'd have a dinner party, and someone would be like, 'Can you do this at my house?' So my catering partner and I - we were both struggling actresses at the time - thought, instead of getting a waitressing job, let's do what we love. We always said if things pick up, our acting careers come first.
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I like quinoa. I like gingerbread. I feel they should be kept separate. I'm not in favor of this thing of making kind of raw, vegan chocolate cake and saying it's as good as chocolate cake. I mean, just eat cake and be done with it. And then have a separate meal of quinoa.
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Our players were given a week off after Japan. Apart from Andrew Packer who has a back injury, they are all fit.
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I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
