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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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
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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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Fortune favours the bold.
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I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.
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I love to eat and I love sweets... like chocolate. But I do work out.
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I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
