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Dolly Parton Quotes

A lot of people think I'm a comedian.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1946

Topics

People Think Comedian Lot

The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'

Great Together Me Years Only Been

As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.

Robert H. Grubbs

Mother Money Child Building Nails

The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.

Michael J. Massimino

Good Stars Light Space Sun Swimming

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.

Father History Best Parents Me Said

I super strongly identify with marginalized communities. I'm not at all religious, but I feel super, super Jewish. I can't even describe the feeling, but it actually feels really similar to being gay, the kind of kinship that you feel with the LGBTQ people. That same sense of community is there with Judaism.

Community People Feel You Gay Kind

I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that evolves with time. I like things to be the same. For a woman I think it's fantastic to have things that are different - it's like a flower where every season there's some new exotic bloom.

Flower Time Woman Man Fashion Think

My family is my little village. I really do feel like my fairy tale came true.

Family Feel Fairy Tale Village True

Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.

Money Ready Want Been Made He

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

Derek Cianfrance

Truth People Me Sick Think Stand

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

Work Competition Financial Fierce

The motto of my Jesuit high school was 'Men for others.' I've tried to live that creed.

Brett Kavanaugh

Live Motto Men School High School

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

Together Song Better Get Together

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