Folks Quotes - Page 14

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  Salma Hayek

  Art, Children, Mexican

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• Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Business, Looks

  Saturday Review (p. 19), March 18, 1944.

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fate, Destiny, Funny Work

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• The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

  Kin Hubbard

  Communication, Way, Entertainment

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  If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Feelings, Abuse, Doing Things For Others

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Humble, Artist

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• I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day.

  Wolfman Jack

  Bad Day, Men, Joy

  "Wolfman Jack signs off at 57", www.cnn.com. July 2, 1995.

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• I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Simple, People, Black

  "Samuel L. Jackson Says, 'I Voted For Barack Obama Because He Was Black!'". www.ebony.com. February 13, 2012.

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• I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Mixtures, Broadway, Opera

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

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• Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

  Sam Kinison

  Seventeen

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• It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Lying, Long, Rumor

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• Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Moon, Thinking, People

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• My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

  Mark Knopfler

  Ideas, Heaven, Delta Blues

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• When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Struggle, School, Big Families

  Interview With Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

  Anne Lamott

  Taste In Music, Reggae, Sophisticated

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• I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Hair, Color, Wigs

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• Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

  Hugh Laurie

  Makeup, Games, People

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• My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Know How, Knows

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

  Amy Lee

  Bigs, Backgrounds

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• Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Health, Government, Forever

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• Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Voice, Minutes

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• I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Years, Magazines

  "Did El Rushbo Make Il Papa TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. December 11, 2013.

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• Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Promise, Liberalism, Fulfilled

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• Obamacare can't work, folks. It just cannot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Obamacare

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