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.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Why
  • Night

• Some films shouldn't be remade.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Films
  • Some
  • Remade

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Want
  • You
  • Point

• My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • She
  • Smart
  • Sister

• I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Proud
  • Audience

• We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Struggle
  • Happen
  • Most

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Women
  • Black

• Dancing is a beautiful thing.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Beautiful
  • Thing
  • Dancing

• 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.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Live
  • School
  • High

• I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Small
  • Funny
  • Fight

• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Power
  • History
  • Influence

• I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

  

  Kanye West
  • Good
  • Never
  • Learn

• During the next couple weeks, I'll be getting the site prepared. It should go up by early summer.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Summer

• Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Study

• Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • World
  • Guy
  • Girl

• The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

  

  Qin Shi Huang
  • Why
  • War
  • Suffering

• Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

  

  Norm Coleman
  • Change
  • Security
  • Social

• Habit is the nursery of errors.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Errors

• There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Love Is

• It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Character
  • Feelings
  • Innocence

• Regarding President Obama. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I talked to him. I sorta, I guess, helped him get elected.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Helped
  • President Obama
  • Elected