Dolly Parton Quotes

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

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• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Inspiration
  • Summon

• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sadness

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Find

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.

  

  Pancho Villa
  • People
  • Men

• How fit is he to sway That can so well obey ('Horatian Ode,' 83-84),

  

  Andrew Marvell

• I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • Mom

• I don't like the sun, but I live in California.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Live
  • Sun
  • California

• It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Good
  • Stupid

• Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Trump

• Donald Trump embraces his wealth. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • She
  • Trump

• I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Different
  • High
  • Magic

• I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

  

  María Concepción Balboa Buika

• By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Band
  • Learned
  • Solo Album

• Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • People
  • Mind
  • War

• The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • People
  • Satisfaction
  • Chains

• I'm a lead singer of a band, and that's so enough. It's not like I need to have my name on everything. The new name 'Scandal, Featuring Patty Smyth' was just to make it clear that I wasn't leaving the group.

  

  Patty Smyth
  • Band
  • Leaving

• If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Years
  • Paid