Dolly Parton Quotes

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
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If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
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When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
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My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
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I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
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Storms make trees take deeper roots.
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The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
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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 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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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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You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
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You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
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I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
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I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.
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I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
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I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
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Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.
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I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
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If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.
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It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
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I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.
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