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

• 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

• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

  

  Will Durant
  • Winter
  • Civilization
  • Honey

• I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Song

• All the time, he hoped they would understand that his arrogance masked only shyness-or did he hope that it was his shyness which masked arrogance? He did not know.Who could presume to know? The one quality holds much of the other. Both refuse to come forward and share.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Quality

• We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • History
  • Labor
  • Battles

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Revenge
  • Rice
  • Retribution