Dolly Parton Quotes

Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.

Dolly Parton

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• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Ideas
  • Army
  • Brainy

• The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Wealth
  • Taste
  • Product

• I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Plan

• Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Equal

• My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Great
  • Here
  • Refugee

• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Will
  • Tell

• That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

  

  Harold Washington
  • America
  • Day
  • Progress

• I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Anything
  • Gorgeous

• People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Alive
  • Prison

• My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • May
  • Problem
  • Lies

• Everyone truly does have God given gifts... Find them and use them, and don't let anyone else tell you that you are less than who you are.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God

• Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Small

• The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Wonder
  • Revolution

• Showing up is not all of life, but it counts for a lot.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Up

• I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Gay

• 'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking.

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Lost

• I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches

• Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.

  

  Rick Astley
  • May
  • Remember
  • Help

• I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Emotional
  • I Can

• If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Song
  • Emphasize

• Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Attention
  • Media
  • '80s

• Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Sex
  • Ready
  • Essentials