Ralph Stanley Quotes
I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I just want to do my job.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
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I reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.
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I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
