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People Quotes by Dolly Parton

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Dolly Parton says that true beauty shines from how we treat others, not just how we look. She admits she isn’t happy all the time and that she’s a sensitive human being. She also celebrates people who work on stage night after night, giving everything they have.

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God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

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A lot of people think I'm a comedian.

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When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

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I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

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You can't really make people be any different than what they are.

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I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'

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I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself -…

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People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

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People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

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People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

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Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them…

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People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

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People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.

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I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around…

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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…

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Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and…

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A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out…

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One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my…

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People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones…

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I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me,…

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That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize…

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I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the…

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I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most…

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I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to…

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I don't know that I'm beautiful or glamorous. I'm a pretty artificial looking person. I sure am flattered when people think I'm…

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I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's…

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It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I…

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I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look…

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We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the…

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I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

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Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.

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People get a kick out of my stupidity.

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It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.

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I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts...

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People will use you as long as you let them.

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You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

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I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

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It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

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Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all…

If you don't like the road youre walking, start paving another one.

After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to…

I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think,…

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers…

I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it…

I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you…