Dolly Parton Quotes
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I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
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They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
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I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.
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People will use you as long as you let them.
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If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!
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When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
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We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together.
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My grandpa was a preacher.
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Life is a song to me.
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I bought all those fitness videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.
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Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. We will always remember her fondly.
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What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.
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Home is anywhere I hang my hair
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I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.
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I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.
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No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
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Cheating love is just as real as un-cheating love.
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Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
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I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.
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I think that I know the value of a dollar.
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It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.
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I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.
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If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.
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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.