Dolly Parton Quotes
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Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.
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I think that I know the value of a dollar.
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I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.
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I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.
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People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are... all bought and paid for.
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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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I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.
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It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.
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You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.
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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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In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.
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My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.
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Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.
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A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.
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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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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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My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
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I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.
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I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.
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I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.
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We're all God's children.
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I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.
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I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.
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One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.