"I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way."

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Ralph Stanley

#Country Quotes #Kentucky Quotes #Virginia Quotes

“When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.”
“The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence one, so does the church. And if it encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.”
“God is a hacker, not an engineer”
“He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.”
“The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.”
“Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.”
“Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.”
“You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.”

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