Dolly Parton Quotes

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

Dolly Parton

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• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Never
  • Economic
  • Been

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Personality
  • Intelligence

• I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Work
  • Live

• I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Fall
  • Deep

• I love writing.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Writing

• You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Up
  • Small
  • Period

• I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

  

  Debbie Meyer
  • Goals

• A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Good
  • Great
  • Book

• I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

  

  Donald Byrd
  • School
  • Band
  • Waiting

• I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

  

  Kevin Gates

• Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

  

  Brian Kernighan
  • Different

• Be nice to people. It’s not cool when people are unfriendly.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • People
  • Nice
  • To Be

• My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

  

  Brenda Ueland
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bold

• Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Love Is

• I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Radio