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Danh ngôn của Dolly Parton (Sứ mệnh: 8)

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.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.
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.
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.
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.
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
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.
I was always a junk food person, still am.
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
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.
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.
God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.
I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
Money ain't everything.
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.
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.
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
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.
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.
I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.
I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.
I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'
Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
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.
God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
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.
People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.
They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.
My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.
I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.
I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.
No, I can't do rap music!
If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
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.
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!
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.
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.
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.
A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
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.
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.
I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.
My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.