Dolly Parton Quotes

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

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• I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Wonder

• Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Want
  • You

• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Women
  • History

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Important
  • Power
  • Never

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Gift
  • Civilization
  • Remind

• This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • May
  • High
  • Me

• Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Age
  • Day
  • Best

• The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • House
  • Food
  • Unique

• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walked along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discourse.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • World

• Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Moments

• I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Girl

• The remedy is worse than the disease.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Disease
  • Worse
  • Remedy

• I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • People
  • Life
  • Missing

• Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Believe
  • History
  • True

• It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Life
  • Grief

• When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Country

• The truth is I'm a very traditional woman, and Rod - despite everything people may think - is a very traditional man. It's true he absolutely loves glamour, and he hasn't got a conventional job, but performing aside, he's happiest at home with his kids around him or lounging in front of the fire watching a war documentary like 'D-Day Remembered.'

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • People
  • May
  • Home

• There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I was 179 pounds. That means by the time I walked in the cage, I was probably 175, 174 pounds.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Fight

• A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Song
  • Mountain