Dolly Parton Quotes

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• Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.

  

  LaToya London
  • Past
  • Doing
  • Win

• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Me
  • Talent

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Soul

• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  

  Major Taylor
  • World
  • Success
  • Youth

• My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Shines

• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Change
  • Try
  • Obstacles

• This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Career
  • Tears
  • Blood

• I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Football
  • Brother
  • Child

• When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • You
  • Look
  • Dirty

• Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.

  

  Young Thug
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Car

• Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mother

• I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Moments
  • Best

• If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • True
  • Government

• They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Mind
  • Lose
  • Grow

• Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Look

• General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Fighting

• We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

  

  Polykarp Kusch
  • Live
  • Science

• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Technology

• When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

  

  Dolly Parton
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