Dolly Parton Quotes

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

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• I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Energy

• The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Government

• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Society

• And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Sex

• I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Government

• I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Like

• Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

  

  Oscar Peterson
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  • Single
  • I Believe

• Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Believe
  • Children
  • True

• Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, 'You're a disgusting, drunken mess.' And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Done

• Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • History

• I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Life
  • Believe

• Do what you love, and what you're proud of, and you're fuckin' bulletproof. You're fuckin' bulletproof. If you do what you absolutely believe to be right, then you're fuckin' bulletproof.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Believe
  • Proud

• I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
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  • Father

• I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Poetry

• While Person A might believe the kitchen counter provides a reasonable surface on which to place one's balled-up sweatsocks post-gym, Person B - about to cut up some vegetables on that same counter, perhaps for a meal intended to be shared with Person A - can only read the sockball as a message that says, 'Hi! I have contempt for you!'

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Kitchen

• I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

  

  Linda Hamilton
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Important

• Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Destiny

• I'm not going back to Woodstock for a while,Though I long to hear that lonesome hippie smile,I'm a million miles away from that helicopter day,No, I don't think I'll be goin' back that way.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Long
  • Smile
  • Hippie

• The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Women
  • Party
  • Parties

• Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Believe
  • Given
  • Degrees