Dolly Parton Quotes

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

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• I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Dream
  • Woman
  • Matter

• For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • People
  • Long
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• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
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• I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Work
  • Family
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• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Small
  • Like
  • Greek

• Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Time
  • Money
  • Love

• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Help
  • Today
  • Free

• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
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  • Clothes

• I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Game

• There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Diversity

• I love to wear original pieces you can't find just anywhere.

  

  China Anne McClain

• Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

  

  John Hall
  • People

• For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Age
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  • Sunday

• Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Song

• I think calling what Paul Ryan is doing a 'budget' is lending some validity to it. It is not a budget. If it were a budget, he could justify his revenue projections, he could justify his cuts, and he can't. This is a scheme to rob the poor and give to the rich.

  

  Marcia Fudge

• You see very senior women leaving technology and the men stay, mostly because they feel quite isolated and are isolated by the very systems.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Technology

• Not a lot of people know I wrote the lyrics for the Arsenal club song, 'Good Old Arsenal'. We had a competition on ITV for it, and none of the entries were any good, so I approached their manager, Bertie Mee, and asked him if he would let me have a stab. He did, and within a few weeks they were singing it at Wembley on the way to the 1971 double.

  

  Jimmy Hill
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Love
  • Singing
  • Harmony

• My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Singing
  • Firsts
  • Bigs