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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• Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hilarious

• 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

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Find
  • Paradise
  • Paths

• 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

• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

  Jack Paar
  • God
  • Mind
  • Bad

• 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

• My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• 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

• Being a teenager is hard.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Being
  • Teenager
  • Being A Teenager

• 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

• There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Life
  • Care
  • Skin

• One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.

  

  J. C. Macaulay
  • True
  • Ability
  • Greatness

• I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I don't have too much time to spend with my family. But when I have that time, I put everything into that. Nothing else. I spend all that time with them.

  

  Jose Reyes
  • Time
  • Family
  • Spend

• I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• 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