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" Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee. "
Dolly Parton
Tennessee
Believe
University
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" There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up. "
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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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" My fat never made me less money. "
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" I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down. "
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" I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like. "
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" I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again. "
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" All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right. "
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" No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period. "
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" I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape. "
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" I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area. "
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" Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan. "
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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 didn't know any gay people in my childhood. "
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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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" My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old. "
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Old
" There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too. "
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" I think everyone should be with who they love. "
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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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Old
" 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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" Never leave a rhinestone unturned. "
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Leave
Unturned
Never
" I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet. "
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Person
Everything
" Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary. "
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Depression
Both Sides
Family
" 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'm just a simple country girl. "
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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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" My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff. "
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" You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own. "
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Left
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