Ralph Stanley Quotes

Well, I don't let anyone record with me that is not a fan of mine or believe in my music. Everybody that records for me, from Bob Dylan on down to George Jones, everybody loves me and my music, and I knew they would do their best that they could do, and they did. I didn't doubt them a bit. There's some country people that I wouldn't want, which didn't record with me.

Ralph Stanley

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• I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Street

• It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • God
  • Day
  • End

• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Doubt
  • Walking
  • Innocence

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Bad
  • Storyteller
  • Embellish

• In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

  

  Rachel True
  • Time
  • Friends
  • End

• Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • Control
  • Movies
  • Television

• The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Business
  • Government
  • Leaving

• Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Only
  • Tactics

• I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Church
  • Easy
  • Week

• I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • World
  • Thinking
  • End

• I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Good
  • Alone

• Schooling is so important.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Important
  • Schooling

• When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Bad

• You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.

  

  Eminem
  • Baby
  • Bird

• Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. 'Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.'

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World
  • Soul
  • Forever

• Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

  

  Albrecht Durer
  • Knowledge
  • Picture

• Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin
  • Diversity

• Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Men

• A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

  

  Al Pacino
  • She
  • Friends
  • Together

• Well, I don't let anyone record with me that is not a fan of mine or believe in my music. Everybody that records for me, from Bob Dylan on down to George Jones, everybody loves me and my music, and I knew they would do their best that they could do, and they did. I didn't doubt them a bit. There's some country people that I wouldn't want, which didn't record with me.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Doubt