Dolly Parton Quotes

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

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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

• The real evil is usually the element that makes one nervous while they are confronting or exposing it.

  

  Walid Shoebat
  • Evil
  • Nervous
  • Element

• Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

  

  Carlos Beltran
  • Help
  • Game
  • Team

• Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

  

  Ricky Williams

• I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

  

  Young Buck
  • Money
  • Young
  • Talent

• I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.

  

  Babyface
  • Work
  • Great
  • Perfect

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Talent
  • Guts