Dolly Parton Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Death
  • Man

• Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Democracy
  • Equal
  • Recognition

• I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Revenge

• Last year they came in and won the game; that's how I would define it. Revenge is never on our mind. What's on our mind is playing defense, rebounding, taking care of the ball, and running our transition game.

  

  Karl Hobbs
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Playing

• For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Firm

• With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Movies
  • Saying
  • Director

• Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Faith
  • Darkness
  • Reasons

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Revenge
  • Rice
  • Retribution