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

• We triggered a discussion in society about the connection between church and state as well as our justice system. Putin is the leader, the icon and the guarantor of an authoritarian system that crushes Kremlin critics along with the help of the secret police and ever changing methods and laws.

  

  Yekaterina Samutsevich
  • Help
  • Society
  • Church

• I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Words
  • Eyes
  • Darkness

• Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Conscience
  • Prudence
  • Accuses

• 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?'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Why
  • She

• You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Stronger

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

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Helped
  • President Obama
  • Elected