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

• My personal life is also cinema.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Personal
  • Cinema

• 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

• I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

  

  Jan Karon
  • Time
  • Book
  • Remember

• 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

• People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • People
  • Mother
  • Parents

• 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

• For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness - you think less; it makes you more centred.

  

  Eva Green
  • Stress
  • Self-Consciousness
  • Centered

• The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.

  

  William James
  • Speak
  • Possibility
  • Relation

• Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

  

  Elizabeth Aston
  • Men
  • Clergymen

• People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Learning
  • Cool

• As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.

  

  Kim Fields
  • Vision

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Revenge
  • Rice
  • Retribution