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• I never saw myself as a folk singer.

  Bob Dylan

  Singers, Saws

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• Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

  Roger Ebert

  Heart, People, Typical

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• I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

  Jenny Eclair

  Reality, Tvs, Snobby

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• We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

  George Eliot

  God, Religious, Hands

  'Adam Bede' (1859) ch.42

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• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Fickle, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.115, Library of America

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• I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

  Vera Farmiga

  Country, Dancer, Teens

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

  William Feather

  Wise, Age, Fables

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• I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

  Nathan Fillion

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Nathan Fillion Talks About Wonder Woman". Interview with Tony 'G-Man' Guerrero, comicvine.gamespot.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

  Renee Fleming

  Simple, Emotional, Grandfather

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• I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

  Jamie Foxx

  Black, Sensitive, Persons

  "VIBE Cover Story: Django Unchained". Interview with Erik Parker, www.vibe.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Education, Book

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• The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

  Kinky Friedman

  Thanksgiving, Texas, Thank God

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• This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Doubt, Fiction

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

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• There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Literature, Comedy

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• I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Association, Blame, Audience

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• A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

  Stone Gossard

  Country, Simplicity, Degrees

  "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

  Ellie Goulding

  Running, Lakes, Perfect

  "Ellie Goulding talks style, music and why she loves Beyonce". Interview with Nerissa Pacio Itchon, blog.sfgate.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

  Dick Gregory

  White, Rights, Black

  "Dick Gregory's Role as Michael Jackson's Adviser". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 12, 2005.

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• I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

  Bear Grylls

  Self, Lines, Determined

  Bear Grylls (2011). “Mud, Sweat and Tears”, p.7, Random House

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• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Running, Men, Risk

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• Some folk want their luck buttered.

  Thomas Hardy

  Business, Luck, Want

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, p.107, Thomas Hardy

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• My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

  Ben Harper

  California, My Family, Stores

  "Give Till It’s Gone: A Conversation with Ben Harper". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

  Ben Harper

  Boys, California, Kind

  "Give Till It’s Gone: A Conversation with Ben Harper". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Priorities, Important

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