Folks Quotes - Page 25

• But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

  Christopher Dawson

  Hero, Long, Lasts

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• I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of the politicians are far greater compared with the ordinary folk than in any other country. The nations that have gone for freedom, justice and independence of people have still freedom and justice, and they have far more equality between their people, far more respect for each individual than the other nations. Go my way. You will get freedom and justice and much less difference between people than you do in the Soviet Union.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Differences, Justice

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• The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

  Joan of Arc

  Poor, Unkindness

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• In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Art, Boys, White

  Benjamin E. Mays (2011). “Born to Rebel: An Autobiography”, p.22, University of Georgia Press

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• Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

  Bela Bartok

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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• The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is Dr. Obama, and he says you can't get the dog dewormed because the worms have a vote. And that's the problem, folks: the worms have a vote.

  Neal Boortz

  Country, Dog, Drs

  "Rush Limbaugh Is Not Alone" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2012.

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• I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.

  Glen Cook

  Honesty, Nice, Lying

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.31, Macmillan

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• The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.

  James F. Cooper

  Passion, Humility, Men

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

  Brené Brown

  Fun, People, Judging

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• Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds - and I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that’s not how it works in Arkansas.

  Mark Pryor

  Country, Thinking, Giving

  "Is Cotton Putting It Away?" by Ramesh Ponnuru, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2014.

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• Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

  Terry McMillan

  Worry, Skins, Want

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.67, Penguin

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• As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

  August Wilson

  Play, White, Theater

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• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

  Auberon Waugh

  Emotional, Feelings, Overcoming

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

  James Kelman

  Stars, Reading, Emotional

  James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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• I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

  Stephen Stills

  Children, Kids, College

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• Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

  Mary Travers

  Human Condition, Concern, Humans

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• I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Giving, Mind, Paper

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• America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

  Bill Frist

  Doctors, America, World

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• The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Writing, Islands

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

  Major Owens

  Preparation, Needs, Our Society

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• The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

  Major Owens

  Self, People, Competition

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• I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

  Cat Stevens

  Thinking, Guitar, Use

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• There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

  Tim Wise

  Thinking, White, Remember

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• I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

  Guy Clark

  Song, Home, Writing

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