Ralph Stanley Quotes
Regarding President Obama. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I talked to him. I sorta, I guess, helped him get elected.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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During the next couple weeks, I'll be getting the site prepared. It should go up by early summer.
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Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.
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Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
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The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
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I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.
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A man another woman can steal from you ain't your man no way.
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The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.
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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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Regarding President Obama. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I talked to him. I sorta, I guess, helped him get elected.
