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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.

Teachers College University Summer

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

Love History War Rich

There's so much to do in Paducah, Kentucky... Paducah's pretty cool, man.

Cool Man Pretty Much

I was born in Alton, Ill., and moved to Paducah, Ky., when I was 3 years old. I lived in Kentucky until I moved to Florida in 2015.

Born I Was Born Old Years

I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.

Character Dance Chance Fan

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

You Basketball Like Kick

Playing at Kentucky, before 24,000 people, you have to learn how to grow real fast and play under pressure and playing on ESPN with millions of people watching. Right away, you learn how to play under control.

You People Grow Control

I'm fine with pressure. I went to Kentucky, dealt with it all season, playing in front of all the top teams and top crowds.

Pressure Fine Top Season

The spacing is so much different in the NBA... There's more spacing, more 1-on-1. I got more space to do work - something I didn't get to show at Kentucky.

Work Space More Something

At Kentucky, the environment and the coaching staff is going to prepare you for the next level, but the way we played in college... there's not a lot of spacing in college at all. So, I mean, you've just got to be able to play off the ball.

You Way College Play

I learned a lot at Kentucky.

I would love to join Big Blue Nation and play for Coach Calipari at Kentucky, and I would love to join my close friend Michael Porter Jr. and play for coach Cuonzo Martin at Missouri.

Love Blue Friend Nation

At Kentucky, I was kind of a role player.

Kind Role Player

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.

Family Foundation Farm Who

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.

Family You Long Back

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.

Life Wife People Child

If I didn't love the game, why would I play at the University of Kentucky? Why would I ever come here? It's a serious program.

Willie Cauley-Stein

Love Game Serious Play

I love being at Kentucky. I love the fan base. I love the community. I love the people there. So it's like, why not stay until they make you leave?

Willie Cauley-Stein

Love You People Community

At Kentucky, you have to be a competitor. If you're not, you're going to look weak. You're going to look like you don't belong.

Willie Cauley-Stein

You Look Like Weak

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

Andrew Sean Greer

Nature Science Brother World

Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

Work Art Woman Words

In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.

Light Long River Sometimes

I grew up in Murray, Kentucky. My wife is from there, also.

Wife Up Also Grew

Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Work War People World

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

Margo Martindale

Love You People Accept

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

Constitution Doing Poor Property

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