Dolly Parton Quotes

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Dolly Parton

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• What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Curiosity
  • Plant

• Practices were tough.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Tough
  • Were
  • Practices

• I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Child
  • WIld

• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
  • Violence

• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Promise
  • Research
  • Opportunities

• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Graduation

• My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Process
  • Choice

• Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Violence

• Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Important
  • Love
  • Why

• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Fate
  • Become
  • Prophets

• Raising George Walker was not easy.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Easy
  • Raising
  • George

• Like a hawk about to devour its prey, the wings of public opinion hover above the head of the judge. All the Court’s decisions are disguised and indirect forms of pleading at the bar of public opinion.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Opinion
  • Judge

• Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reading

• You can't like everything! You hate some stuff! Say what you hate! Like, I hate Pitbull, and I don't care!

  

  Charli XCX
  • Hate

• If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Power
  • Happy

• We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Time
  • American
  • Dirty

• When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

  

  Edward Irving
  • Heart
  • Respect

• They Americans want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Good
  • Create
  • Americans

• It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!

  

  Chely Wright
  • Great
  • Country
  • Feeling

• They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Country
  • Smart