Folks Quotes - Page 17

• I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

  Rick Santorum

  Gun, Self, Hands

  "Where Rick Santorum Stands on Issues Important to Latino Voters". www.foxnews.com. January 10, 2012.

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• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, America, Survivor

  "Reps. Ryan, Wasserman Schultz on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2010.

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• Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

  Will Self

  Listening, Enemy

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• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  Tavis Smiley

  Running, Moon, Destiny

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• Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Kids, Defense

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Narrative, Rock N Roll, Tradition

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!

  Angie Stone

  People, Giving, Waiting

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• Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Thinking, Television, Way

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• Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

  James Taylor

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "James Taylor: 'I never did feel like I was the cool one'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 21, 2008.

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• You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

  Sonny Terry

  Humanity, Mind, Culture

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• I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

  Twyla Tharp

  Issues, Feelings, Needs

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• Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Smart, Gambling, Advice

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Matter, Facts

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”

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• Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

  Bob Uecker

  Brother, Home, Weekend

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• Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

  Tom Vilsack

  Hands, Risk, Three

  "Vilsack offered to resign over flap" by Roger Simon, www.politico.com. August 25, 2010.

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• I was reared on folk music.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Folk Music

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• We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

  Sam Walton

  Business, Educational, Causes

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• In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

  Lawrence Welk

  Dancing, Way, Evening

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

  James Whistler

  Majority, Stories, May

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.'

  Betty White

  Animal, Thinking, Heartbreaking

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

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• The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Organization, Attention, Trouble

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1969). “Little Town on the Prairie”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Technology, Able, Today

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• As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.

  Martin Filler

  Needs, Feng Shui, Belief

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• I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

  Greg Graffin

  Men, Common, Punk

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• Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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