Dolly Parton Quotes

I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.

Dolly Parton

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• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Bad
  • Lawyers

• I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Reality
  • Fake

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • May
  • Trust

• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Trying
  • House

• As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • People
  • High
  • Fall

• I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Heart
  • Make A Difference

• Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • English

• I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Me
  • Change

• Poor juvenile solutions, explaining nothing. No need then for caution, we may reason on to our heart’s content, the fog won’t lift.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Heart
  • May

• The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heart

• I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.

  

  Corbin Bleu Reivers
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hair

• When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • People
  • Money
  • Smile

• At times, I can be vocal about what I think people want to hear as opposed to being vocal about what I really feel.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People

• I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it.

  

  Chris Morris
  • People
  • Tired

• Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.

  

  Edy Ganem
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Home

• After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • People
  • Water

• The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • State
  • Monsters

• I've got a tiger by the tail it's plain to seeI won't be much when you've got through with meWell I'm losing weight and I'm turning mighty paleLooks like I've got a tiger by the tail.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Tiger

• I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Heart
  • Appreciate