"I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language."
-Loretta Lynn
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"I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.“
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"I'd love to travel to the Holy Land."
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"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."
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"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."
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"I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due."
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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."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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