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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. -- Jack L. Chalker
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. -- Daniel Boone
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. -- Pamela Anderson
Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune. -- Daniel Boone
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program. -- John Calipari
I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate. -- Sonny Landham
If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54. -- Bill Shoemaker
I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11. -- Jeri Ryan
On 'Justified', we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky. -- Timothy Olyphant
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me. -- Loretta Lynn
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. -- Hugo Black
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything. -- Jennifer Lawrence
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco. -- George Clooney
The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco. -- Jim Bunning
George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not George Clooney in my eyes - he's George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart. -- Shailene Woodley
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. -- Daniel Boone
As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point. -- Ben Chandler
As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point. -- Ben Chandler
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have. -- Sonny Landham
Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it. -- John Yarmuth
You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us. -- George Clooney
I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961. -- Sue Grafton
Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention. -- Ron Lewis
In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else. -- Rand Paul
After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad. -- Sterling Marlin
All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter. -- Homaro Cantu
But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed. -- John Shimkus
And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one. -- Ashley Judd
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape. -- Dwight Yoakam
My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here. -- Ernie Fletcher
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that. -- Pee Wee Reese
I will advocate for Kentucky's interests, -- Rand Paul
Kentucky wants to occupy some clock -- Billy Packer
Kentucky Fried Chicken.. KFC... Keep Fooling Customers. -- Jay Leno
Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place. -- Daniel Boone
Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued. -- Ashley Judd
The trick to defending Kentucky's home court is....better defending -- Tubby Smith
You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred. -- Joe Torre
Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty. -- Rand Paul
If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out! -- Josh Hopkins
I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago. -- Timothy Simons
Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses. -- Dennis Sharp
Rick Santorum is so conservative; he thinks KY Jelly is jam made in Kentucky. -- Jay Leno
There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky! -- Verne Lundquist
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. -- Abraham Lincoln
God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification. -- Thomas Merton
I'm not the stereotypical blonde vixen girl but rather the blonde freckled girl from Kentucky. -- Maggie Lawson
I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you. -- Margo Martindale
If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart. -- Jesse Stuart
If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind. -- Mark Twain
The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation. -- Jerry Tarkanian
Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool. -- Eyedea
Randolph Morris on the inside for Kentucky has been too much of a load for Villanova to handle -- Billy Packer
Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work. -- Dave Barry
On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky. -- Timothy Olyphant
The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken. -- Neal Stephenson
I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville. -- Chris Stapleton
The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing. -- Patton Oswalt
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue. -- Irvin S. Cobb
I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character. -- Josh Hopkins
By now everyone knows that I picked Kentucky, and I am definitely happy with my decision and that it's all finally over. -- Nerlens Noel
I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester. -- Tucker Max
Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'! -- Irvin S. Cobb
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else. -- Mark Twain
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds. -- Vinton Cerf
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay. -- Muhammad Ali
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants. -- Wendell Berry
In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders. -- Jimmy Fallon
The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves. -- William Carlos Williams
Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809. -- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
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
When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority. -- Alison Lundergan Grimes
In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication. -- Maxine Cheshire
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
I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me. -- Jesse Stuart
My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary. -- George Rogers Clark
I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet. -- Dorothea Dix
I do not believe it is appropriate or in the best interest of Kentucky to recommend policies that would move Kentucky from low-cost energy options to high-cost energy options. -- Joe Craft
My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize. -- Bobby Knight
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky. -- David Morrell
If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move. -- Solomon Burke
[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you. -- Maxine Cheshire
I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you can't afford it, you can get a scholarship. -- Jess Weixler
We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity. -- Ernie Fletcher
I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship. -- Jess Weixler
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
Here's what the kids get. They get free McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken for a year, and 52 six-packs of Pepsi. And I'm thinking, well, actually, it might be healthier if they were taking steroids. -- David Letterman
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
As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me. -- Matt Gonzalez
For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken. -- Ben Elton
You'll be in good hands with the colonel, you'll see."The colonel? Okay, I was obviously stuck in a Gone With the Wind theme park. Or maybe a Kentucky Fried Chicken farm.Or I was simply hallucinating... -- J.R. Rain
I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder. -- Pamela Sargent
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
To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby. -- Bob Lewis
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river. -- Bob Edwards
Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay. -- Hal Sparks
I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn't get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move. -- Rick Pitino
The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local police captain who has no shame in telling his coworkers that he is the inspiration for all of my heroes. -- Molly Harper
In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud. -- Gurney Norman
We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that. -- Bobby Knight
Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world. -- Kim Edwards
There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.' -- Laura Bell Bundy
My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal. -- Laura Bell Bundy
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
The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets. -- Damon Thayer
I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan. -- Maggie Lawson
I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville. -- Rick Pitino
There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique. -- John Calipari
I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down. When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like, 'I can't live like this'. -- Jennifer Lawrence
If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population. -- Thomas Jefferson
Well, it's possible that the new infusion of ad money against Donald Trump kept his margins in Kentucky and Louisiana down a bit. But we're also seeing something that we've never seen in 100 years, which is we are seeing the crackup of a major American political party. -- Mara Liasson
At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. -- Jack Bowman
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that." -- Pee Wee Reese

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