Dolly Parton Quotes

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Dolly Parton

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Music
  • School
  • Career

• I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • High
  • Violence

• The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • School
  • You
  • Drama

• It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Guitar

• I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • School
  • Home

• My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Acting
  • Approach

• I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • School
  • Me

• I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • School
  • History
  • Football

• When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• In one notorious episode in 2002, in the holy city of Mecca, the religious police prevented girls from fleeing a school that was on fire because they were not properly dressed.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • School
  • City
  • Religious

• I was raised in a Christian household and went to a Christian high school, so I believe in creationism, for sure.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Believe
  • School
  • High

• When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn't have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

  

  Daniel L. Doctoroff
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • School

• I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are.

  

  Jeanne Phillips
  • School
  • Kids
  • Understanding

• I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • People
  • Dream

• Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.

  Biz Stone
  • People
  • Mistake

• If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • True
  • Inspiration
  • Honestly

• I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • School
  • Poor
  • Hated