Dolly Parton Quotes
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.
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I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.
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My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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Consequence is no coincidence.
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You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.
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Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
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When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
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I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.
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The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes.
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Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
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When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"
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I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.
