Dolly Parton Quotes

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

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• There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Wonder
  • Story
  • Train

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Help
  • Government

• I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Mean
  • Restaurant
  • Belong

• I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Long
  • Human
  • Decisions

• You have to follow that next step.

  

  Laura Moser
  • You
  • Step
  • Follow

• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Along

• Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Trying
  • Story
  • Photography

• I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fear

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

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life

• when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Long

• I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Experience
  • Kids
  • Parents

• When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Band
  • Drinking

• If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Happy
  • Sad

• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Laughter

• I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Music
  • Home
  • Listening

• It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.

  

  David Hewson
  • Why
  • Hero
  • Planning

• For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Service

• All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Brother