Folks Quotes - Page 26

• There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

  Richard Petty

  Doubt, Racing, Automobile

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• Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the leader of that change at the moment. Sometimes his words and outspokenness offend some folks, but he doesn’t back down from his comments. He doesn’t back down in his driving either, and when competitors see him coming in the rearview mirror, they have to be wondering what he’ll do and what he’s thinking. I think fans love that and gravitate to drivers like Brad.

  Darrell Waltrip

  Sports, Thinking, Mirrors

  "SPEED Quotes: Byrnes, McReynolds​, Petty, Waltrip Talk 2013 NASCAR Season", www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2013.

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• In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the midst of beautiful forests under the skies that give their color and their charm to the life of youth gathered here . . . there is music in the air of the place.

  Frank Porter Graham

  Beautiful, Color, Sky

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• Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

  Douglas Coupland

  White, Example, Vienna

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

  Tom Vilsack

  Average, Years, Poverty

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• Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

  John Hoeven

  Produce, Productivity

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• Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. “I got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses.

  David Eugene Edwards

  Song, Horse, Men

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• No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

  Kelly Link

  Kings, War, Soldier

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.

  John Prine

  Song, Sound, Stuff

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• My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Mean, Dark

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• Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

  Alan Freed

  Music, Dance, Song

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• I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

  Bela Fleck

  Thinking, Roots, Mixtures

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• Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

  Mark Sanford

  Team, Humility, Thinking

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

  David Rakoff

  Children, Cities, Clouds

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• Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews, but because they are folks, and I don’t like folks.

  Albert J. Nock

  Years, Jew, Ifs

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• A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

  James Payn

  Mean, Evil, Poverty

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Doubt, Accepting

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• Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one!

  Clifford Bax

  Earth, Fairs

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• Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is to dismiss these folks as ignorant fools. But I suspect these folks know the odds are stacked against them, and yet they are more than happy to take their chances.

  Jonathan Clements

  Smart, Odds, Temptation

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• Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

  Gavyn Davies

  Book, Investing, Making Money

  "Gavyn Davies does the maths". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.

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• I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.

  Herbert

  Catholic, British, Homosexual

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• Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful

  Mike Harding

  Beautiful, Mother, Song

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• Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Heart, Mcdonalds

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

  Rick Danko

  Lost Love, Play, Safe

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