Dolly Parton Quotes

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.

Dolly Parton

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• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Washington

• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• 'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Day

• I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Know
  • Yourself

• When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Perspective

• There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Strength
  • Social Media

• I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Work
  • Results

• The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • True
  • False

• People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Follow
  • Normal

• When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• I do a lot of writing about my family.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Lot

• Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Live
  • Earth

• No matter how long our politicians order people to sing songs of praise, no matter how many fireworks they launch into the heavens, and no matter how many foreign leaders they embrace, they cannot arouse a genuine mood of joy and celebration among the people.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Long
  • Joy

• Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Company

• The future will either be green or not at all.

  

  Bob Brown
  • Future
  • Green

• Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

  

  George Chapman
  • Black

• Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Control
  • Nation
  • Wreck

• Becoming rigid in a chaotic situation is like being caught in a riptide and struggling against it. If you fight, you’ll get exhausted and be swept away. Yoga is like a life raft that teaches us to observe and listen and allow ourselves to be carried by the tide until we find a place where we can safely break its hold.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Yoga
  • Listen
  • Teaches

• I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Struggle