Dolly Parton Quotes

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

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• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Want
  • Example
  • Tax

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Never
  • Find

• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

  

  Mako
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Stereotypes

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Different
  • Real
  • Feeling

• I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Film
  • Everything

• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Test
  • Member
  • Became

• I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Years
  • Tennis

• I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Star
  • Forever
  • Thought

• As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Time
  • Win

• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • You
  • Teach
  • Old

• Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Kind
  • Nothing
  • Ever

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence

• The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg
  • American
  • Past
  • German

• The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• I think Lady Gaga is talented. Madonna is talented, and the flair that Michael Jackson had. He was talented! Whatever it is that they do, they must be doing something right. They do have an audience out there, so I respect that.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Respect

• The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

  

  Jacques Delors
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Growth

• Overall, I'm happy with the way it felt. There were a few places that I was faster, but I didn't get it done. I'll keep working on it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Way

• The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Freedom

• Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Control
  • Thankful

• I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

  

  Dolly Parton
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