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We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.
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I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
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I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!
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I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
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That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
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I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.
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I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.
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Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit.
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You can't really make people be any different than what they are.
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George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
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You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
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I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.
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I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
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The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.
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Wildflowers don't care where they grow.
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...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
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I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.
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Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'
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Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.
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I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.
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I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
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I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.