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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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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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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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
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I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.
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The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person – her husband.
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On my own or with a friend, I'm a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the supermarket. But when I'm with my husband, I'm shop shy because he can't bear it. It always ends up with us making a huge scene on the High Street and then going off in a huff in separate directions.
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I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.
