Dolly Parton Quotes

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

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• I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

  

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  • School
  • Poor
  • Hated

• When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

  

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  • Helping
  • Library
  • Hometown

• I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

  

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  • Look
  • Describe
  • Cinderella

• I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!

  

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  • Thought
  • Smile

• The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

  

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  • Rain
  • Rainbow
  • Put Up

• I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it.

  

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  • Littles
  • Bigs
  • Appetite

• Cause I am strong and I can prove it And I got my dreams to see me through It's just a mountain, I can move it And with faith enough there's nothing I can't do And I can see the light of a clear blue morning And I can see the light of brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]

  

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  • Strong
  • Moving
  • Mountain

• You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

  

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  • Brave
  • Whole
  • Unless

• I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

  

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  • Lows
  • Fashionable
  • Stoops

• I have just one tube of lipstick, but it's as big as a can of hairspray.

  

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  • Lipstick
  • Hairspray

• Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.

  

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  • House
  • Running
  • Feelings

• I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

  

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  • Book
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

  

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  • Clothes
  • Entertainment
  • Fairy

• God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

  

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  • Reason

• A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

  

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  • Feathers
  • Peacock

• I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

  

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  • People
  • Trying
  • Kind

• You can have your choice of men but I could never love again He's the only one for me Jolene I have to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you and whatever You decide to do Jolene...

  

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  • Men

• To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.

  

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  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

  

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  • Life
  • Forget
  • Making

• My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

  

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  • Love
  • Funny
  • Food

• If I should stay, I would only be in your way. So I'll go, but I know I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way.And I will always love you. I will always love you.

  

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• First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

  

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  • Morning
  • Spiritual
  • Makeup

• I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

  

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  • Home
  • Eye
  • inspirational

• I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

  

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  • Trying
  • Sometimes