Folks Quotes - Page 15

• One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Challenges, Liberty, Freedom And Liberty

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• If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Honesty, Integrity, Mean

  "Limbaugh: Clinton undercuts Obama" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ideas, People, Political

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• We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I'm confident.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Waiting, Bars

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• I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

  John Lydon

  Mean, Roots, Culture

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Liot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

  John Lydon

  Gains, Poverty, Chaos

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

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• When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

  Loretta Lynn

  Talking, Cities, Trying

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.14, Vintage

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• The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

  Harvey Mackay

  Ideas, Suggestions, May

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• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Keys, Needs

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Thinking, Wish, Division

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• I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Government, Long

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• We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

  Mitch McConnell

  Jobs, Doors, Years

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• The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Literature, Married

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• I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

  Joni Mitchell

  Easy, Easy To Get, Folk Music

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• No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

  Moby

  Manhattan, Facts, Driving

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• There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

  Moliere

  Passion, Smoking, Literature

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• Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.

  Gwen Moore

  Cute, Hard Work, Fighting

  "The Struggle Continues: The Wisconsin Labor Movement One Year Later" by Rep. Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  Van Morrison

  Essence, Names, Beats

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• Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Philosophy, Government, President

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• One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Wish, Desire, Attention

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• Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Safety, Goes On, Poor

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• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Christian, Mother

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• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Hitting

  Speech at the CBC Foundation gala, thegrio.com. September 24, 2011.

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• We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

  Barack Obama

  Time, Ideas, Perfection

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• I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

  Barack Obama

  Passing By, Central Park, People

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