Dolly Parton Quotes

I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

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• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
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• A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

  

  Laura Mvula
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  • Passion

• Rich people march on Washington every day.

  

  I. F. Stone
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  • Day
  • Rich

• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

  

  Earl Wilson
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• I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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  • Writing

• It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Character
  • American

• The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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  • Time
  • Crazy

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.

  

  Sam Kinison
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  • Real
  • Change

• It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • People
  • Desire

• Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

  

  Philip Schultz
  • People
  • Life
  • Ambition

• I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • Music

• We live by our values at Levo. We began by surrounding ourselves with passionate, values-driven people who had their intentions in the right place, and learned that like attracted like.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • People
  • Live

• Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • People
  • Sick
  • Ignorant

• My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Character
  • Job
  • Kids

• It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Like

• Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • World
  • She

• I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

  

  Dolly Parton
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