Dolly Parton Quotes

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

Dolly Parton

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• I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Mind
  • Man

• People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Thought
  • Fast

• I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • People
  • Life
  • Struggle

• The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • People
  • Time
  • Forever

• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • World
  • God

• 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Lost
  • Air

• I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

  

  Uri Geller
  • People
  • House
  • Broken

• I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There's something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • New
  • New York

• You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Up
  • Fashion

• I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • American
  • I Can

• The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Group
  • Month

• There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Unhappy

• There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Doing
  • Nothing
  • Easier

• I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.

  

  Edward Moore
  • Great
  • Blessed

• When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Up
  • Music
  • America

• I've had many friends over the years who have been in same-sex relationships, and the family denies hospital visitations when one is sick. Or when the estate is settled and people who have built a life together has everything taken away from them either by the families or the taxman.

  

  David Furnish
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Money
  • Home
  • Parents

• I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Poor