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" Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him. "

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" I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair. "

" The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires. "

" Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me. "

" I'd love to travel to the Holy Land. "

" Who wants to be married to a grandfather? "

" Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped. "

" My life has run from misery to happiness. "

" I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is. "

" There's always been a man telling me what to do. "

" I ain't got much education, but I got some sense. "

" You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess. "

" I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems. "

" I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do. "

" I never rode in an automobile until I was 12. "

" I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. "

" Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it. "

" Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards. "

" Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown. "

" Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best. "

" I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor. "

" I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me. "

" I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me. "

" Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience. "

" Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead. "

" I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened. "

" The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch. "

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" I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics. "

" We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean. "

" You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. "

" When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could. "