Dolly Parton Quotes

Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!

Dolly Parton

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• I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Me
  • Action
  • Movies

• There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • School
  • Home
  • Remember

• The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • May
  • Design

• Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Right
  • Interest
  • Broadway

• I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Progress

• Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Country
  • Want
  • Hunting

• When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Things
  • Negative

• I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Life
  • War
  • Military

• I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Universe

• Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Done
  • Purpose

• There will be a sovereign Palestinian state, a sovereign Jewish state of Israel and those two states can, I think, will be able to deal with each other the same way all states do. I mean, you know, the United States and Canada has arguments once in a while, but they’re not the nature of arguments that can’t be solved diplomatically.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Nature

• Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Business

• I was so lost back then,But with a little help from my friendsI found a light in the tunnel at the end.Now you're calling me up on the phone,So you can have a little whine and a moan.And it's only because you're feeling alone.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Up
  • Help
  • Feeling

• And, growing tired, we turn aside at last,Remember our secret selves, seek out our towers,Lay weary hands on the banisters, and climb;Climbing, each, to his little four-square dreamOf love or lust or beauty or death or crime.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Growing

• I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • America

• Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • America
  • Law
  • Baseball

• I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Live
  • Sports
  • Athlete

• Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Question
  • Person
  • Story

• You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Moving
  • Alive
  • Ready

• I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blood
  • Battle
  • Wells

• Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Crazy