Dolly Parton Quotes
Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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My closest friends today are, in fact, my friends from college.
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If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
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We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.
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Even the sensible and the competent have been given tongues by le bon Dieu - and they do not always employ their tongues wisely.
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Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
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The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
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I have nothing against President McKinley whatsoever, but I would rather have this peak be called by the name it has gone by for centuries by Alaskans than a man who never set foot in our state. This is the tallest mountain in North America, and we deserve to have this Alaskan landmark bear an Alaskan name.
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More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'
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This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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The shortest answer is doing.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.
