Loretta Lynn Quotes

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• You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

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  Life, Night, Dry

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.117, Vintage

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• The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

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  Country, Children, Mistake

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.7, Vintage

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• In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

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  Running, Long, Luck

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.71, Vintage

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• You either have to be first, best, or different.

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  Different, Firsts

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• Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

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  Easter, Crucifixion Of Christ, Perfect

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.12, Vintage

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• Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

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  Sad, Running, Pie

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• When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

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  Song, Writing, Feelings

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.9, Vintage

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• Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

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  Hoping For The Best, Do The Best

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2010

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• I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

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  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.9, Vintage

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• Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

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  Writing, People, Songwriting

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• I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

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  Funny, Witty, Baby

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• I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

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  Lightning, Bugs, Diamond Rings

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• I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

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  Singers, Language, Hillbilly

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• I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

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  Thank God, Done, Given

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.194, Vintage

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• I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

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  Long, Surprise, Life And Time

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2010

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• Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

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  Inspirational, Nuts, Knows

  "What I've Learned: Loretta Lynn" By Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country.

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  Country, Eye, Hands

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• All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

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  Country, Art, People

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• I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.

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  Thinking, People

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• If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

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  Husband, Ideas, Singing

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• A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

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  Two, Cents, Music Business

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• I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

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  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.92, Vintage

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• I want more out of life than I've gotten.

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  Want

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.194, Vintage

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• When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

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  Country, People, Looks

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.76, Vintage

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• I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

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  People

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