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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To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...
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It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.
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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
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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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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.
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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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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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Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
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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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We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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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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Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.
