Dolly Parton Quotes
I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
Dolly Parton
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
Harold E. Hughes
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
Brown Campbell
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I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.
John Sebastian
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And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.
Chris Anderson
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
Orison Swett Marden
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I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
Jack Valenti
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We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in prison now as we did in 1981, when I left the White House. So that's been one of the major concerns I've had as a non-lawyer, to criticize the American justice system, which is highly biased against black people and poor people. And it still is.
Jimmy Carter
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I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
Dolly Parton