Dolly Parton Quotes

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

Dolly Parton

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• Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Poor
  • Because
  • Resources

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• My philosophy is to be me.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Philosophy

• Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Serious
  • Politics

• So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Beautiful
  • Culture
  • Idea

• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Lying

• They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Money
  • Poor
  • Wars

• Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Poverty
  • Philosophy

• My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.

  

  Angela Davis
  • World
  • Age
  • Poverty

• Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Strong
  • Poor
  • Afraid

• Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Giving
  • Philosophy
  • Going Away

• Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Free
  • Moment
  • Philosophy

• You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Ambition
  • Poor

• Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Philosophy
  • Teaches
  • Misfortunes

• You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Freedom
  • Poor
  • Wealthy

• Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Men
  • Philosophy

• I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it.

  

  Michael Kelly
  • Science
  • Political
  • College

• I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Character
  • Want
  • Comedy

• Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Dragon
  • Look Like
  • Helmet

• I know a lot of people say New York is the basketball mecca, but to me, it's Seattle.

  

  Rashard Lewis
  • People
  • Basketball

• I've never liked rehearsing too much.

  

  J Mascis
  • Never
  • Too Much
  • Too

• I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Philosophy
  • Poor