Dolly Parton Quotes

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

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• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Winter
  • Oil
  • Juice

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Leader
  • Role
  • Prison

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Emotions
  • Negative

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Feedback

• Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Food
  • Me
  • Conscious

• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Believe
  • America

• I like Chanel mascara because it has the darkest black. For my eyebrows, I brush them through to keep them groomed and in place. And for my lips, I wear lip balm. I use Kiehl's Lip Balm #1. It's really helpful during fashion week. If I keep up with these three things, I feel like I look very fresh, young, and natural.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Up
  • Black
  • Fashion

• I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Love
  • Child
  • Eat

• I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Play

• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sad
  • Information
  • Thing

• I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Said

• Sanjay Leela Bhansali brings out the best in me, both personally and professionally. I think we have a Karmic connection and I hope he'll agree!

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Hope
  • Connection

• I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Parents
  • Unique

• I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

  

  Kurt Russell

• A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • People
  • River
  • Stock

• If I was always doing my own thing, I would be bored out of my mind.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Mind
  • Bored

• It's really a great experience to be able to work on a large production, traveling around like a family, setting up for an amazing show, and all having the same purpose.

  

  Lourdes Leon Ciccone
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Strong
  • Me

• I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.

  

  Alan Ritchson
  • People
  • Fun
  • Superhero

• I try to think of myself as a struggling competitor or specialist at my craft, much like a singer, dancer, comedian, or actor. So I'm struggling to do my craft and I'm continually trying to learn to do it better. I think that's what's really been my secret.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Struggle

• When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Family
  • Kind
  • Ifs