Dolly Parton Quotes

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

Dolly Parton

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• I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Myself

• Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • High
  • Water

• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Things
  • Understand

• To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Why

• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Black
  • Everything
  • Ships

• Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • World
  • Important
  • Better

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

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Going
  • Work Ethic

• Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • New
  • Going
  • Bring

• I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Dream
  • Lucky

• Most of us get our history through story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • History
  • Story
  • Through

• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • History
  • Control
  • Practice

• Our ills are worse than at their easeThese blameless happy souls suspect,They only study the disease,Alas, who live not to detect.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Study

• What did this long-range goodwill mean, and what did it say about the social contract that allowed a rich man to free all of his descendents from the need to work over the course of almost two centuries?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Work
  • Long
  • Free

• It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Morning

• The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Experience

• Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

  

  Donald Knuth

• Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Purpose