Dolly Parton Quotes

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

Dolly Parton

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• I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Being

• The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reality

• L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Love

• I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Economics

• I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Expression

• I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hate

• Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Energy
  • Understanding
  • Balance

• I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Why
  • Want
  • Hate

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Understanding

• The East would always present that calm face of faint astonishment, unmoved at the anger, not understanding the bitterness.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Understanding
  • Present
  • Calm

• 'But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavour toward better understanding.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • History
  • Understanding

• We are the youth, we can make coolness for our future, it's up to us. Go green and hate hate.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Up
  • Future
  • Hate

• 'I don’t know.' That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Clever

• I hate victims who respect their executioners.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Hate
  • Respect

• I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Hate
  • Purpose
  • Lesbian

• To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Understanding

• There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Period

• God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Work
  • God
  • Why

• Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.

  

  Darren Flutie
  • People
  • Important
  • Children

• You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Vietnam
  • Kosovo

• Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Hate
  • Understanding
  • Revenge