Dolly Parton Quotes

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

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• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Ship

• There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Children
  • House

• There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • People
  • Black
  • Feeling

• Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Power
  • War

• The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Problem
  • How

• With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Up
  • Say

• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Life
  • Game

• I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Day

• To me, to be political means you associate your work with a larger number of people’s living conditions, and that includes both mental and physical conditions. And you try to use your work to affect the situation.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• A people that began to think as citizens rather than subjects might transcend underdevelopment on their own. Inalienable human right is unique in that it needs no superhuman guarantee; no 'fount' except itself. Only servility requires the realm (suggestive word) of illusion. Illusions, of course, cannot be abolished. But they can and must be outgrown.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • Unique

• When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • People
  • Money
  • Smile

• I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

  

  Kelly Brook
  • Sexy

• The real stars who have dedicated their services to the film industry are Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, and Akshay Kumar. I do not come in this league at all.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Real

• I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Writing

• Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true.

  

  Martin Luther
  • True
  • Christ
  • Churches

• I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Way
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