Dolly Parton Quotes
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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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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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies.
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It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
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I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.
