Dolly Parton Quotes

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Dolly Parton

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• In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Mother

• In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Jews
  • Jew
  • Defending

• People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.

  

  Lorde
  • Need
  • Wanted
  • Walk

• To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • Scary

• The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa represents our commitment to Africa's next generation of leaders, who deserve an exemplary education to prepare them to help set the course for their nations' futures. We expect the universities in which we invest to become the foundation of a higher education network that will serve all of Africa for decades to come.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Help
  • Education
  • Commitment

• All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Lonely
  • Loneliness

• They had two really good teams those two years, but they've got a really good team this year. I'm hoping upstate this time they can really make a difference.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Team

• The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Work
  • Lives
  • Tragic

• If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Wish
  • Choices
  • Keep Going

• You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.

  

  Rabia Basri
  • Knows

• Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

  

  J. Allen Boone
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Understanding

• Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.

  

  Gabriel Faure
  • Music
  • Black
  • Mistake

• Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Music
  • God
  • Experience

• Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Sister
  • Twin

• The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Language

• I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Littles
  • Accepted
  • Outcast