Dolly Parton Quotes

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

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• They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Life
  • True
  • Sleep

• I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Think

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Amazing

• Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Photography

• When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happened
  • Before
  • Punk

• The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Freedom
  • Day
  • Wisdom

• The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Problems

• I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • School
  • Brother
  • Romantic

• We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Integrity
  • Plan

• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Job
  • Day
  • Universe

• There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Control

• Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.

  

  Alex Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Real

• I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Business

• I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

  

  Geoff Stults
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Thanks for the advice, but it never pays to run from a bully. That would only endanger whoever I chose to stay with.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Advice
  • Chose
  • Endanger

• I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Never

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Family
  • Together
  • Proud