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I think everyone should be with who they love.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

I'm a show-off basically ... always have been.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

'Wrecking Ball' is a great song.

The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals,

You're no Elvis Presley, I'm no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you're sexy, just thought I'd tell you so.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I'm a workin' girl.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.

I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.

Me and God have a great relationship, but we're both seeing other people.

I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

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

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

I've been very fortunate.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

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.

Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

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.

Wildflowers don't care where they grow.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I'm just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I'm going through.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares ... if you don't really work them.

I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

When I have sex with my husband, I fantasize I am with a petite, hot young woman.

I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

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

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.

Smile, it increases you face value.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

Sevier County is a great area.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

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

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are ... all bought and paid for.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else.