Dolly Parton Quotes

I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

Dolly Parton

• Children
• Politics
• Honesty

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• There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Control
  • Economy
  • Possible

• My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • May
  • Father

• When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Know
  • Always
  • Fly

• I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Car

• Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Impatient
  • Relentless

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I can never really enjoy being famous.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Never
  • Enjoy
  • Famous

• I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Talking

• I hate to travel with stuff.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Stuff

• This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Gay
  • Surprise

• What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Men
  • Virtue
  • Conscience

• I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • High
  • Wind
  • Acceptance

• I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Love
  • Amazing

• I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Going
  • Work Ethic

• I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Dad

• There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Children
  • Kids

• Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Live

• The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service.

  

  Kathy Calvin
  • Children
  • Fight
  • Battle

• I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Children
  • Politics
  • Honesty