Loretta Lynn Quotes

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

Loretta Lynn

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• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

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• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

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• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

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• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

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• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

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• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

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• I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

  

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• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

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• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

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• As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  

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• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

  

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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

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• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

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• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

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• I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.

  

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• Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

  

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• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

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• I don't expect anyone who doesn't look like me to fix my problems.

  

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• I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.

  

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• I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

  

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• In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

  

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• I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

  

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• When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • Trying
  • City