Folks Quotes
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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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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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To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...
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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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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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There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
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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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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
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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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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
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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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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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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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Another crucial thing the tea party did really well is to focus in on the folks who are more or less on your side, and make sure they are as bold as possible.
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I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.
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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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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.
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There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
