Folks Quotes - Page 12

• Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Looks, Should

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• Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

  Joe Biden

  America, Expansion, Closure

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• I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Money, Next

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• I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Panic, Left

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

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• In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Vegas, Iowa

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• What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

  Bono

  Ends, Pops, Pop Music

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• But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

  Bono

  America, People, Resistance

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• 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

  Alton Brown

  Dark, Men, Cooking

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• Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

  William S. Burroughs

  Business, Mind, Atheism

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.16, Arcade Publishing

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• Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

  Noam Chomsky

  Song, Art, Real

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• Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspiring, Money, Thinking

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• I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Father, Land

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• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  Gail Collins

  Optimistic, Past, Flying Cars

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• I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.

  Gail Collins

  New York, Thinking, Support

  "Grand Bargain Express". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.

  Gail Collins

  Running, Home, Careers

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Brother, Betrayal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Heart, Tanks

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

  Evan Davis

  Party, Glasses, Office

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• There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

  Paula Deen

  Fashion, Daddy, People

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• Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

  Mos Def

  Art, Hip Hop, Lasts

  "The Artist Formerly Known as Mos Def" by Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

  Ani DiFranco

  Stars, Rocks, Fans

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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• I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

  Ani DiFranco

  Mean, Connections, Punk

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

  Matt Dillon

  Song, Brother, Father

  "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.

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• I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Folk Music

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, People, Fats

  Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

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