Loretta Lynn Quotes
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You're the reason our kids are ugly.
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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
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All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country.
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Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.
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We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.
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I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
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I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
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I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
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If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.
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I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
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In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
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I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
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I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
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Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.
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You have to be different, great or first.