Dolly Parton Quotes

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • American
  • Dream
  • Logic

• I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Live
  • Criticism
  • Circle

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Celebrate

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Artists
  • Incredible
  • Miller

• And so to bed.

  

  Samuel Pepys

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• That he, in his developed manhood, stoodA little sunburnt by the glare of life;While I . . it seemed no sun had shone on me.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • Sun

• Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Parents

• I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Good

• For some reason, I always wanted to work in an environment where things weren't so good. I'm no messiah, but I always wanted to try and make a difference where a team hadn't prospered.

  

  Jerry West
  • Good
  • Work
  • Team

• When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Long
  • Study
  • Racism

• I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • House
  • Parents
  • Lost

• What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

  

  Joan D. Vinge
  • Political

• My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Up
  • Business
  • Partner

• Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Criticism
  • Avoid
  • Easily

• So do fundamentalists believe in majority rights or minority rights? The answer is, apparently, neither. They'll pull whichever argument suits them out of its file when necessary, but basically they are unprincipled on the issue of school prayer. They have a big double standard that basically says, "Whatever I want is right.

  

  Bob Altemeyer
  • Believe
  • Prayer
  • Argument

• While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Focus
  • Film
  • Program

• I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Lost
  • None
  • Knowl

• As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • World
  • Book

• I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Dog
  • Looks
  • Shapes