Dolly Parton Quotes
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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A prince, the moment he is crown'd,Inherits every virtue sound,As emblems of the sovereign power,Like other baubles in the Tower:Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,And so continues till he dies.
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I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.
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When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.
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What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.
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I'm short, and I'm curvy, and so shopping is hard for me sometimes.
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If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.
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I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
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The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
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In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.
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There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?
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Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.
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After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.
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I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.
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If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.
