Dolly Parton Quotes

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• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Graduation

• In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Help
  • Safety

• In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Fight

• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Saints
  • Appointment

• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Liberty
  • Price
  • Cost

• I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Up
  • Star
  • Movies

• I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Look

• Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Worry
  • Smart
  • Speech

• The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Thought

• At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Country
  • Business
  • Age

• The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Chinese
  • Ship
  • Golden

• I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Thought

• A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Today
  • Space
  • Farm

• An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Popular

• I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • World
  • Great
  • Love

• Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• There's a slew of actors that I'd love to work with. I'd love to work with Gary Oldman. He seems like not only a solid dude and a good man, but a pretty inspired actor.

  

  John Pyper-Ferguson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best.

  

  Xavi
  • Good
  • Real
  • Feeling

• As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Character
  • Respect

• My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

  

  Lea Michele
  • Home
  • Heaven
  • Champagne

• You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.

  

  Dolly Parton
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