Dolly Parton Quotes

People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

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• I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Future
  • Past
  • Change

• A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Spirit
  • Audience
  • Enthusiasm

• When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Home
  • Gold
  • New

• I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • House
  • Sun
  • Living

• I want to have a normal high-school experience.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Brain
  • Start
  • Cutting

• The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Why
  • Home

• Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May

• Music is the space between the notes.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Space

• I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Off to bed. If squirrels take over in the night, I, for one, welcome our new bushy-tailed scampering overlords, & I know where the nuts are.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Night

• Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

  

  David Trimble
  • Night
  • Attention
  • Driving

• This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • Job
  • Funny

• Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

  

  Mark Millar
  • Writing
  • America

• I can't go to war with paparazzi.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • War
  • Go
  • Paparazzi

• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Got

• As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

  

  James Gleick
  • Book
  • Perfect
  • Technology

• When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.

  

  Amber Rose
  • Up
  • Food
  • Die

• I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Fashion

• People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Affair