Dolly Parton Quotes

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

Dolly Parton

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• Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Pretty
  • Acting
  • Stage

• A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • True
  • Girl
  • Mean

• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Dreams

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Management
  • Treat

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • World
  • Money
  • Want

• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bread

• The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Water

• It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Black
  • Law
  • Always

• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Minds
  • Little
  • Consistency

• War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.

  

  Agnes Repplier
  • World
  • War
  • Hope

• In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-year process, they have to know that it's not just Shake Shack that wants to buy it. They have to have other buyers who are willing to pay more for all natural.

  

  Danny Meyer

• We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• I always accessorise with jewellery. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewellery makes me feel more exciting and confident, too!

  

  Amber Le Bon

• A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they're supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • People
  • Movie
  • Team

• I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Jump

• Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

• All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

  

  Mark Crispin Miller
  • People
  • Today
  • Shopping

• My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • Writing
  • School
  • Kids

• It's hard to stop wars, and it's hard to stop the abuse of the planet and all of those things. I guess you just do what you can do and voice your concern.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Stop
  • Abuse

• Before I was physically there in different countries to meet my fans in person, I didn't really realize how famous I was.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Different
  • Famous

• Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?" "You," he said. "And me.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Space
  • Dancing
  • Crush

• So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • School
  • Daddy