Dolly Parton Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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Shock 'n' Awe. We bring the BoomWow.13
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I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
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Mystery, speaking through mysteries. Insn't that meaning? Isn't that the conscious or unconsciousnes purpose of the compulsive urge to create?
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
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Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
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Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
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I hadn't made that movie before and when I ever met the real Joy Mangano, which happened because De Niro insisted we meet her and her father, that's what she felt like to us. She impressed us with her quiet, serene authority with herself.
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I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.
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Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!
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I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.
