Dolly Parton Quotes

I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.

Dolly Parton

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Today
  • Guilty

• I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Book
  • Power

• It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Change

• And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Single

• Shock 'n' Awe. We bring the BoomWow.13

  

  Ze Frank

• I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Up
  • Different
  • Eyes

• Mystery, speaking through mysteries. Insn't that meaning? Isn't that the conscious or unconsciousnes purpose of the compulsive urge to create?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Purpose

• Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Stupid
  • Honesty

• The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Trying

• Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Long
  • Commitment

• Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Music
  • Attention

• For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Live
  • Dream

• We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • People
  • Cancer
  • Addiction

• When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.

  

  Keri Russell
  • Age

• For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • God
  • Job
  • Play

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Heart