Dolly Parton Quotes

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

Dolly Parton

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• My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.

  

  Yuna
  • Style
  • Woman
  • Comfort Zone

• I don't know what love means.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Love
  • Know
  • Means

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Learn

• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  

  Origen
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Mystery

• If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • War
  • Rules

• In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
  • Man
  • Day

• It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Social

• I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• I don't work with a stylist.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Work
  • Stylist

• Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Age
  • Sometimes

• If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Control
  • Lost
  • Conversation

• Letting someone down is not criminal action.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Action
  • Down
  • Someone

• The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves.

  

  Peter F. Hamilton
  • Doubt

• My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Real
  • Quality

• The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Grace
  • Bondage
  • Freed

• What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Fire
  • Memories
  • Ashes

• Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Passion

• I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Girl
  • Reason
  • Sometimes

• I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Talent
  • Guts