Folks Quotes - Page 28

• The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.

  Matthew Humphreys

  Data, Design, Creative

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• And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

  Toni Morrison

  Song, Children, Flirting

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• For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

  Gloria Borger

  News, Belief, Journalism

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• Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religion, Dollars

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.276, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most folks call them green onions, but
  they're really scallions.

  Stan Freberg

  Onions, Green

  Song: Christmas Dragnet

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• I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

  Mick Mulvaney

  Ceilings, Would Be, Debt

  "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.

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• And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Book, Struggle, Giving

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

  Eubie Blake

  Song, Mistake, Believe

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• All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

  Eubie Blake

  Song, Musician, Able

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• The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

  Kirby Larson

  Courage, Worst, Standing

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.164, Yearling

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• I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

  James McBride

  Men, White Man, Understanding

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• Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers on both, big-time. So hold on to your hats, folks. You’re in for quite a ride.

  Harry Turtledove

  Enemy, Stories, Development

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• I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

  Mark Lawrence

  Hate, Rocks, Climbing

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.197, Penguin

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• The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.

  Philip Greenspun

  Art, Stars, Book

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• My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, World, May

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• TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

  Lee Clow

  Attention, Lines, Tvs

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• Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

  Andy Stanley

  Home, Organization, Discipline

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• My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

  Haley Reinhart

  Dad, Latin, Rocks

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• I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.

  James Gosling

  Careers, People, Interesting

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• Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

  Alex Haley

  Powerful, Littles, Tools

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• There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

  Dave Alvin

  Play, Two, Quiet

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• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

  Daniel Suarez

  Average, Bmw, Two

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.5, Penguin

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• I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Writing, Would Be, Appalachia

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• Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. 'The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.'

  Jerry Della Femina

  Thinking, Lines, Pearls

  "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor". Book by Jerry Della Femina, 1970.

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• You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

  Jodi Thomas

  School, Thinking, Everyday

  Jodi Thomas (2010). “Welcome to Harmony”, p.21, Penguin

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