Dolly Parton Quotes

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

Dolly Parton

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• Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Together
  • Software
  • Apple

• It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Movie
  • Monster
  • Supernatural

• I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

  

  Gary Wright
  • God
  • Rest
  • Hands

• I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Goals

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Art
  • Look
  • Prejudice

• I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • History
  • Violence
  • Laugh

• My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Model
  • Working

• When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Relationships

• I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Football
  • Risk
  • Fire

• We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • World
  • Good
  • True

• If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Relationships
  • Page

• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Character
  • Action
  • Discipline

• Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessèd face

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time

• ...his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• To begin, I am a citizen of the world. The Earth is my country, and humanity is my nation. This is my motto: What everyone has longed for and will be achieved when all of the people shall also celebrate this prize that every Yemeni, and every Arab, and every human being and every woman has also won beside me.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words

• Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Fear

• We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Like
  • Citizens
  • Take

• ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

  

  William P. Young
  • World
  • Important
  • Heart

• Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  

  Brad Blanton
  • People
  • Culture
  • Dying

• I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Personality
  • Natural
  • Fitting