Dolly Parton Quotes

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

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• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Live
  • Three
  • Household

• We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Together
  • Cool
  • Enjoy

• In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Service
  • Public Service

• Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Small
  • Wine

• Reason gains all people by compelling none.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • People
  • Reason
  • Gains

• It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Crazy

• Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

  

  Arthur Bryant
  • Real
  • November

• The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Travel

• I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

  

  Ben Hogan
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sun

• People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • People
  • Remember
  • Childhood

• The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Live
  • Regret

• I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Pretty
  • Poetry

• To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Superman

• I am a sportsman, and I hate politics.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Hate

• Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories.

  

  Ellen Datlow
  • Children
  • Fear

• I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Character
  • Personality

• Even with G.O.O.D. Music, we have artists that have done very well, and we've had artists that haven't. Being attached to Kanye is only going to get you so far. You've still got to have the records and the talent and the artistry on your own to carry it.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Music
  • Done

• I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

  

  Elizabeth Wilson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Career

• Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'

  

  Frankie Ballard
  • Song
  • Listening
  • Door

• Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Today
  • Testimony

• Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • School
  • Career
  • Law

• Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Believe
  • War
  • Proud

• It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Blonde
  • Bother