Dolly Parton Quotes
People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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I want to have a normal high-school experience.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Music is the space between the notes.
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I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
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This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.
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Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
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I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.
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It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
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The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.
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I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.
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And Dr. Dre said … nothing, you idiots! Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement!
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
