Dolly Parton Quotes

I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

Dolly Parton

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• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Way
  • Wife

• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Tall

• I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Done
  • Control

• The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Poor

• The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Strong

• If children have interests then education happens.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Children
  • Education

• While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Long

• On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

  

  Jay Roach
  • Hope

• In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Time
  • Long
  • Chocolate

• It's only when you're privy to the conversations and a member of the production team that you can direct the course of a series and make sure it flourishes.

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Team

• There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • People
  • Children
  • Trust

• Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

  

  Jane Jacobs
  • Nature

• One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • Mad

• When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • People

• I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

  

  Jeffrey Tate

• Нет бессмертия души, так нет и добродетели, значит, всё позволено. … Без бога-то и без будущей жизни? Ведь это, стало быть, теперь всё позволено, всё можно делать?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

• When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Couple
  • Gay
  • Spring

• Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Reality
  • Revenge

• The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

  

  William Blum
  • Leader
  • Rice
  • Mafia

• If I'm forced to leave West Ham, it will be done according to the rules - the club will have its share of the cake.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Done

• I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Challenge
  • Choices
  • Balance

• If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

  

  Kevin Hassett

• I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Revenge
  • Rice
  • Retribution