Dolly Parton Quotes

I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.

Dolly Parton

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• I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Best

• There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Couple
  • New York
  • Pizza

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thoughts
  • Negative
  • Internal

• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Problem
  • Best
  • Baseball

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Kid

• Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Very
  • Iran
  • Effective

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Financial
  • Crisis
  • Banks

• I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Never
  • Expected
  • Campaign

• Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Hand
  • Decision
  • Woman

• If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Love
  • Player
  • Numbers

• When I say, 'Everybody to the table and eat,' I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Good
  • Family
  • Food

• Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Women
  • Dream
  • inspirational

• I like women who talk smack.

  

  Jaleel White
  • Women

• It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • Control

• I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Dream