Dolly Parton Quotes

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

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• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Money
  • Look
  • Roads

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • Look

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Humanity

• I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reputation
  • Madman
  • Crank

• It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Important

• I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer
  • Military

• If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Job

• There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Food

• There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Music
  • Doubt

• We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • People
  • Money

• I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

  

  Marco Arment
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

  

  Matthew Weiner
  • People
  • Community
  • Violence

• I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • Job
  • Famous

• No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Women
  • Positive
  • Equality

• I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Thinking
  • Faces
  • Generations

• I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

  

  Christopher Buckley

• I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Positive