Folks Quotes - Page 32

• There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

  Barack Obama

  Dislike Me, Ideas, Black

  "Going the Distance". Interview with David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

  Christopher Guest

  Jealous, Rocks, Self

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• Don't be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone's bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don't hurt anybody, what's it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn't made TUSK? If I'd let it die as a podcast? I wouldn't have three other movies I'm now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.

  Kevin Smith

  Dream, Hurt, Stupid

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Guitar

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• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  Adam McKay

  People, Dangerous, Knows

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• To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

  C. B. Cebulski

  Writing, Asking, Comic Book

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• Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, People, Evil

  "Homebody". Book by Orson Scott Card, March 4, 1998.

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• The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a mosque next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by radical Islamists. Those folks don't have any interest in reaching out to the community. They're trying to make a case about supremacy... This happens all the time in America. Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Museums, Holocaust

  "Newt Gingrich's Legacy As A Political Commentator: Smears, Falsehoods, And Inflammatory Rhetoric" by Fae Jencks and David Shere, www.mediamatters.org. March 2, 2011.

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• We think revival means a silver-tongued preacher, some good music, and a few folks who decide they're going to join the church. No! Real revival is when people are eating at a restaurant or walking through the mall when they suddenly begin to weep and turn to their friends and say, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I know I've got to get right with God.

  Tommy Tenney

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

  Tommy Tenney (2005). “God Chasers”, p.48, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.

  Grayson Perry

  Art, Drawing, Style

  "Grayson Perry lassos thoughts with a pen" by Grayson Perry, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what.

  Margaret Walker

  White, Justice, Black

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.485, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Parent, Want, Stills

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

  Kin Hubbard

  Thinking, Justice, Ifs

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• Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.

  Truman Capote

  Children, Way, Always Wrong

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• 'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.

  Antonio Banderas

  Change, Couple, Talking

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• The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

  Guy Burgess

  People, Justice, Way

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• The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil........We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Fda, Evil

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• We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Insightful, Insane

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• We allow folks to divide us. I don't like this Republican/Democrat, left/right, radical/not radical division that is created by folks, particularly and unfortunately in the media. What happened to being a self-reliant, God-fearing American, that loved freedom and the constitution? That's the way I want to be labeled.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Self, Media

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• It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

  Barry McGuire

  Song, Fun, Guitar

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• I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

  Graham Coxon

  Guitar, Lovely, Littles

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• I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

  Mark Knopfler

  Play, Guitar, Bass

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• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  Randy Bachman

  Son, Rocks, Community

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• Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

  Alan Parsons

  Real, Artist, Rocks

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

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