Dolly Parton Quotes

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

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• For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Confidence
  • Preparation

• Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Different
  • Identity
  • Stand

• Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Year
  • Round

• I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Change
  • Grow

• More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Country
  • Today

• Trump is a systemic stress test.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Trump
  • Stress

• I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.

  

  Zendaya
  • Ideas
  • Diversity
  • Clothing line

• There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Words
  • Story

• Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Writing
  • Learning

• This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• I asked my wife if she enjoys a cigarette after sex and she said "No, one drag is enough".

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Wife
  • Sex

• Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Question

• A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it to get free, but very soon after it fluttered and died. The other silkworms that struggled out without help suffered, but they came out into full life and beauty, with wings made strong for flight by their battle for fresh existence.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • Life
  • Help
  • Free

• Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Soul
  • Perfect
  • Prayer

• It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.

  

  George Washington
  • Facts
  • Principles
  • Intention

• I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Writing
  • Christian
  • Fiction

• The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Important
  • War
  • Care

• Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Art
  • Game
  • Effort

• Look-Then-Leap Rule: You set a predetermined amount of time for “looking”—that is, exploring your options, gathering data—in which you categorically don’t choose anyone, no matter how impressive. After that point, you enter the “leap” phase, prepared to instantly commit to anyone who outshines the best applicant you saw in the look phase.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Rule
  • Options
  • Phase

• That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • Loyalty
  • Weight

• Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.

  

  Michael Ritchie
  • Would
  • Weight
  • Sitting

• If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Weight
  • Dresses