Dolly Parton Quotes

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

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• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Night
  • Thanks

• I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• Whatever you've accomplished there's always more to experience.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Experience

• They all ask: Why? Why is it that this man’s name Ai Weiwei can never be typed on a Chinese computer or the whole sentence will disappear?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Why
  • Chinese

• I take photos, I used to make films, I journal incessantly, and I really value the documentation of life. Because it's almost like you are making something special by wanting to make it exist in an object - on paper or even just in the computer - making these recordings, making this music.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Life
  • Music
  • Value

• I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

  

  bell hooks
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  

  Charles Mingus
  • Simple
  • Creativity

• I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Done

• I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• In German, if a situation is tense, you say 'unter strom' - under electricity.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • German

• At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.

  

  Kehinde Wiley

• My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Wish
  • Mom

• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Running

• The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Flower
  • Sunday

• A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dance

• The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'

  

  Amanda Donohoe
  • Bad
  • Nice

• You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking