Kentucky Quotes - Page 6

• There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.

  Richard Hell

  Loss, Cities, Towns

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.

  Bill Gates

  Flames, Years, Plutonium

  "Bill Gates’ Plutonium Pipe Dream: Convert Mountains of Depleted Uranium at Paducah to Power Earth for Centuries". "EnviroNews DC News Bureau" with Josh Cunnings, www.environews.tv. March 14, 2016.

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• What happens when you get hurt? Take that kid at Kentucky, Nerlens Noel, who could have turned pro after high school.Who knows what's going to happen? How the operation is going to go? The only thing I do know is that he would have been a top pick in the draft last year, and he'd have millions of dollars in the bank.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Hurt, Kids, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

  Muhammad Ali

  Struggle, Next Week, Boxing

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing the shot from the confederate soldiers after the second battle of Bull Run. Amazing to think that he heard that and I studied with one of his last law clerks in college. And that encapsulates almost all of American history.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Running, Mother, Uncles

  Source: www.slate.com

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• 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.

  Ralph Stanley

  Country, Virginia, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Math

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

  Eyedea

  Order, Here And There, Band

  Source: kandisknightpr.blogspot.com

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• For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me.

  Sam Abell

  College, Thinking, Cameras

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his mouth was "The central theme of American Literature is an attempt to reconcile what we've done to the New World." wrote that down in my notebook, and thought, "What is he talking about?" But that's what I think about now. The New World and what we've done to it.

  Sam Abell

  Notebook, Thinking, Talking

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I will tell , though, that Donald Trump got 70 percent in eastern Kentucky and I don't think it had anything to do with the Russian. He got 70 percent because in eastern Kentucky we didn't like what President [Barack] Obama or Hillary Clinton wanted to do to our coal jobs. It didn't have anything to do with the Russians.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Thinking, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters. And I think that home-state constituency issue is a pretty constant one. And I think the problem of extreme lobbying by the corporate sector, which runs about $30-to-$1 compared to everybody else in the world, and the constituent aspect combines to give those industries a consistent advantage.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Running, Country, Home

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• My goal right now is to actually help Donald Trump. He's the Republican president. He's doing a lot of things that conservatives are for. I'm for. And so my goal is to help Kentucky by repealing regulations that are killing our coal industry. And I think on that, we're very much aligned.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Goal, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.

  Thomas Woods

  Government, Virginia, Judging

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• Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society - and bring factories, offices and economies to a screeching halt in states that are 80-98% dependent on coal: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

  Paul Driessen

  Virginia, Ohio, Utah

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• On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn't pick them up.

  Rand Paul

  Home, Two, Iraq

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

  Margo Martindale

  People, Accepting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

  Richard Florida

  New York, Alaska, Virginia

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• If I'm not training then, gosh, anything: donuts... Kentucky Fried Chicken 20-piece hot wings... corned beef hash and eggs... But because I'm training, I'm eating very healthily: almond milk... Ezekiel bread... chicken... fish... I'm on a strict diet.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Wings, Eggs, Ezekiel

  "Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Film". Interview with Kam Williams, houston-newsonline.com. December 20, 2014.

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• I was recruited by a number of schools including Miami University, University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, Indiana university, West Virginia University as well as others.

  Graham Taylor

  School, Numbers, Virginia

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• When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.

  Wendell Berry

  Violence, Causes, Goes On

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby.

  Jim Leyland

  Running, Mules, Derby

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Numbers, Chinese

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• ...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the slaves; and, especially, his not freeing the slaves in 'loyal' Kentucky and other United States areas or even in Confederate areas occupied by United States troops, such as New Orleans.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  War, Two, New Orleans

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• In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Race, Oakland

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.36, Vintage

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