Dolly Parton Quotes

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

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• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Fashion

• I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Injuries

• I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Money
  • Want
  • Lying

• I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

  

  Ice T
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Competitive

• I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Television
  • Unknown
  • Canada

• A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life

• Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• 'But of course, you don’t believe in the existence of sin, do you?''I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,' Rashmika replied.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Believe

• When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Thinking

• Doing a song that's sassy but kind of has that little flair to it, it's very me.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Song
  • Sassy

• I love yoga... I also see an Ayurvedic doctor, which is an ancient Indian thing. I go and see the doctor to balance my system twice a year; it's preventative. They take my pulse, give me some herbs, and tell me what I should eat and what I should avoid. They rub oil on me too, it's so lovely. It's like a detox.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Balance
  • Yoga

• The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.

  

  Fred Funk
  • Up
  • Home
  • Help

• In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

  

  Li Peng
  • Political
  • Serious
  • Summer

• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • Leadership

• Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Mistake

• I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

  

  LaDonna Adrian Gaines

• In essence, leaders are people who 'walk ahead,' people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.

  

  Peter Senge
  • People
  • Deep

• Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Dad
  • Reading
  • Uncle

• When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • Technology
  • Computer

• My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Together
  • Firsts
  • Phones