69 Quotes & Sayings By Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, film actress, author and philanthropist. She grew up on a farm in Tennessee and began singing at an early age. She has released sixteen albums and is the most honored female country performer of all time. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and has recorded twenty-one number one singles on the Billboard country charts.

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If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. Dolly Parton
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,...
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain! Dolly Parton
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't...
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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. Dolly Parton
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
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Storms make trees take deeper roots. Dolly Parton
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They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple. Dolly Parton
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to...
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If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. Dolly Parton
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words Dolly Parton
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I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out. Dolly Parton
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My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost. Dolly Parton
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Dolly Parton
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Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. Dolly Parton
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I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world. Dolly Parton
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If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's.. Dolly Parton
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A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home? Dolly Parton
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I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. Dolly Parton
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The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E. Dolly Parton
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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent. Dolly Parton
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. Dolly Parton
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It costs a lot of money to look this cheap Dolly Parton
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People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there. Dolly Parton
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Cause I am strong and I can prove it And I got my dreams to see me through It's just a mountain, I can move it And with faith enough there's nothing I can't do And I can see the light of a clear blue morning And I can see the light of brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"] Dolly Parton
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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. Dolly Parton
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I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. Dolly Parton
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If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton
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The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton
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I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. Dolly Parton
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I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. Dolly Parton
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I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things. Dolly Parton
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I walk tall I got a tall attitude. Dolly Parton
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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. Dolly Parton
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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. Dolly Parton
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As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them! Dolly Parton
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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. Dolly Parton
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A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them. Dolly Parton
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I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me. Dolly Parton
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I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. Dolly Parton
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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! Dolly Parton
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Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart. Dolly Parton
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Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do. Dolly Parton
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. Dolly Parton
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I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches. Dolly Parton
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First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes. Dolly Parton
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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. Dolly Parton
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They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart. Dolly Parton
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I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy. Dolly Parton
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My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. Dolly Parton
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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then. Dolly Parton
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I was always a junk food person, still am. Dolly Parton
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If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. Dolly Parton
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Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort. Dolly Parton
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I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet. Dolly Parton
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When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry. Dolly Parton
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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road. Dolly Parton
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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. Dolly Parton
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I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today. Dolly Parton
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My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago, ' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation. Dolly Parton
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The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone. Dolly Parton
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I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them. Dolly Parton
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Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be. Dolly Parton
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When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids. Dolly Parton
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I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red. Dolly Parton
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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. Dolly Parton
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I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer. Dolly Parton
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Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate. Dolly Parton
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I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. Dolly Parton
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God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people. Dolly Parton
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I love traveling all over the world but it's true: there's nothing like home. Dolly Parton
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I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that. Dolly Parton