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.

Dolly Parton

• Spiritual
• Affirmation

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• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Music
  • Business
  • 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.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Love
  • Son

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

  

  Francine Busby
  • American
  • Learn
  • Operations

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Celebrity

• One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Great
  • Things
  • Friendship

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Action

• The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Great
  • Why
  • College

• A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.

  

  Jay Parini
  • God
  • Long
  • Running

• 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.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People

• Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu

• 'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.

  

  Ben Browder
  • Science

• As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Athlete

• The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Money
  • Comedy

• I chose my own path because that was the only way.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan
  • Path

• Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.

  

  David Novak
  • Moral
  • Bible
  • Affirmation

• Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Parents

• Is it 10g of protein more or 10g of protein less, who cares, just get started

  

  Kai Greene
  • Care
  • Protein
  • Who Cares

• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  

  Walter Bonatti
  • People
  • Together
  • Reality

• There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

  

  Steve Odland
  • Change
  • Ethics
  • Corporate

• 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.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Spiritual
  • Affirmation