Dolly Parton Quotes

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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• Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I want to do stories that inspire people.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Want
  • Inspire

• People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Name

• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Learn
  • Psychology

• Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Women
  • Professional

• The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• Many times, I have heard people saying that they don't like to work with their wife or husband, but to me, it is a plus. To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• I sometimes wonder if I pushed myself to get out there and meet people I'd get more work.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Road
  • Chance
  • Baseball

• I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • People
  • Model
  • Improve

• Holiday hiring is only useful if you get the right people, and the consensus among HR professionals is that the most consistent and efficient means of finding good people is to use word of mouth. Namely, this is because focusing on referrals means that only people who are already within your network will apply.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Good
  • Holiday

• I've reached the age where young people frequently ask for my advice. All I can really say is that electronics is a fascinating field that I continue to find fulfilling. The field is still growing rapidly, and the opportunities that are ahead are at least as great as they were when I graduated from college. My advice is to get involved and get started.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • People
  • House

• I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Movie

• I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can't underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People

• There were moments that Bobby and I would come offstage after performing in front of 20,000 people and say, 'Wow, how did that happen?' It's been a blessed life.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • May
  • Simple

• I think it's a different experience for plus-size women in film and television to get clothes for events. It's just not as welcoming for us to get cool clothes that are, like, equal in glamour, in style, to what, I am going to say, 'small size' co-stars get to wear.

  

  Aidy Bryant
  • Different
  • Women
  • Experience

• I'm comfortable that we've got the appropriate wage investments to get the talent we need.

  

  Doug McMillon
  • Talent
  • Wage
  • Investments

• I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Chance