Dolly Parton Quotes
I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.
Quotes to Explore
-
In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
-
I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
-
I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
-
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
-
I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
-
I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
-
Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
-
The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
-
Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
-
Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.
-
'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
-
As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.
-
I chose my own path because that was the only way.
-
The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
-
I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.
-
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
-
There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
-
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
-
The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
-
If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
-
God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.
-
The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.
-
I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.
