Dolly Parton Quotes
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Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
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I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.
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I always wanted to be loved.
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I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
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I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.
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I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.
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My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.
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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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I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
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Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
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I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.
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Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.
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I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.
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I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.
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I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.
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I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.
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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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We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.
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I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.
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I will never retire unless I have to.
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.
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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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I'm just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I'm going through.
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A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.