Folks Quotes - Page 16

• Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Moving, Thinking

  Remarks at Laborfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 6, 2010.

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• The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

  Susan Orlean

  Opposites, Feelings, Genius

  "Snap" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 22, 2010.

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• A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

  Mehmet Oz

  Believe, Years, Best Year

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• My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Feet, Nicknames

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• I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Expectations, Listening, Trying

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• Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Birthday, Years, Bully

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• Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

  Sarah Palin

  Government, Succeed, Failing

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• I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

  Sean Paul

  Ideas, Together, Midnight

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

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• Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

  Christine Pelosi

  Oil, Presidential, Shelter

  "Ryan Roadmap STILL a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2012.

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• I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

  Brad Pitt

  Summer, Night, Oklahoma

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

  Robert Plant

  Similarity, Folk Music

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• I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.

  Rob Portman

  Religious, Organization, Issues

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• The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

  Elvis Presley

  Men, Years, Singing

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• More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

  Elvis Presley

  Home, Thinking, Want

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• Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Artist, Rocks

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• I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Artist, Looks, Singers

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• Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Song, Rocks, Guitar

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• Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

  John C. Reilly

  Nervous, Old Fashioned, Shows

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• Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.

  John C. Reilly

  Dad, Father, Hero

  "John C. Reilly: this much I know" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. February 09, 2013.

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• The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

  Samuel Richardson

  Republic, Letters, Littles

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.415

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• You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

  Eric Ries

  Perseverance, Keys, People

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• My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

  Marco Rubio

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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• I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

  Katey Sagal

  Soul, Listening, Grew Up

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• There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

  Stan Sakai

  Hero, Animal, Long

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• You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Wealth, Bottom

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

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