Folks Quotes
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
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It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.
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To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...
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Most folks don't know about it. But I thought it was worth a shot, as I could direct my fans to it via my Web site.
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Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue-eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, and practically every monarch or minister of consequence in Europe--not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.
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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
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Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.
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A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
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Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.
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There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
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Folks in the media ask at the behest of Democrats, "isn't it insensitive for us to do a Second Amendment rally following this terror attack?" Let me tell you something. I really don't view our job as being sensitive to Islamic terrorists.
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There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.
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Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.
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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
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There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
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I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease, ... Most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.
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Nowadays, people wanted to tell you class didn't exist and color didn't matter anymore. Look at Miss America and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But Miss America and the chairman were no more black people than Mother Teresa was white people. Men like Nate and women like her were the people, the folks, the mud from which the rest were made. It was their hands and blood and sweat that had built everything, from the North Carolina governor's mansion to the first stoplight.
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I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.
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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
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Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
