Dolly Parton Quotes

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

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• The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Home
  • Sorry

• White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence
  • Go

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
  • Myself
  • Powerful

• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Thoughts
  • Dog
  • Speak

• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Rude

• The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Health
  • Air
  • Human

• A heart makes a good home for the friend.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Home

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Through

• I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Young
  • First
  • Teenager

• Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Age
  • Space
  • Red

• We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Great
  • City

• I can't even remember when I first went, 'I want to be an actress.' It's always been inside of me.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Always

• Life's a journey, not a destination.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Destination

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I'm frustrated by what I hear. Maybe it's not meant for me. Personally, I'm way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I'm much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you're dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Great
  • Cool

• I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Kind
  • Car
  • Musician