Folks Quotes
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Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
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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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The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.
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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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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.
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Lots of folks want success without sacrifice. Life doesn't work that way. Be willing to pay the price for your dreams.
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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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To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...
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My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.
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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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The thing I keep hearing from folks is that they can’t afford to live in California anymore and they cannot stomach living in California anymore.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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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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I got off a plane today at the airbase and I met a whole bunch of military folks there waiting to see me, they all made reference to my son and his military service and expressed their condolences. And although it's still kind of an open wound, it gave me a sense of strength knowing they all meant it.
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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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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
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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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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
