Dolly Parton Quotes

Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

Dolly Parton

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• Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

  

  Sam Francis
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• Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

  

  LL Cool J
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• A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

  

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• Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

  

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• My reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert.

  

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• Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

  

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• We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.

  

  Amy Plum
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• People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.

  

  Gerald Nicosia
  • People
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• Good energy, even if it’s not focused. Bad technique, but that’s understandable and it can be corrected. Too much enthusiasm. There’s no shame in honorable combat, but there shouldn’t be so much unnatural pleasure. The man with the greatest thirst for blood ends up drinking at Hades’s table.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
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• Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
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• If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Fun
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• Our first gig we played as a three-piece, we got paid $15; I got $5. But I was 12 years old, and I never had $5 at one time before," he said. Their first earnings were a cause for a celebration, so the boys traveled to Tony's in Saginaw.

  

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• A short way into Teen Vogue I realized that teens see it as a guide for their lives and their careers, more than a place to teach them how to get boys. And they don't ask us fashion advice questions; they're too sophisticated. They're inspired by what they see and they think, 'These people at this magazine represent what I want to be, beyond shoes and makeup.'

  

  Amy Astley
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• Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.

  

  Elsa Barker
  • Watches
  • Flow
  • Inevitable

• Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

  

  Tony Danza
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Innocent

• Obviously, Wham! made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

  

  George Michael
  • Celebrity
  • Musician
  • Confident

• Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Tides
  • Clutch