Folks Quotes - Page 38

• I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

  Creed Bratton

  Israel, Europe, Trios

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• But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Military, People

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• What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Song, Writing, Bob

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• Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

  Stevie Wonder

  Ghetto, Reality, Land

  Song: Village Ghetto Land, 1976

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• Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.

  John Hiatt

  Death

  Song: Death By Misadventure, 1983

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• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Peace, Hate

  Song: The Folk Song Army, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Media, Hey

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• We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.

  Eddie Cochran

  Family, Party, Home

  Song: Let's Get Together

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• I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

  Alan Jackson

  Hypocrite, Poodles, Politics

  Song: Meat And Potato Man, Album: When Somebody Loves You, 2000

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• Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.

  Ludacris

  Moving, Years, Black

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• The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.

  Tom Lehrer

  Hate, Apples, Pie

  "National Brotherhood Week" (song) (1965)

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• The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Levels, Addresses, Sides

  "Representatives knock Sen. Saxby Chambliss' comments on sexual assault" by Dana Ford, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

  Stedman Graham

  Years, Prison, Five

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• One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.

  Robert M. Gates

  Home, Golf, Weekend

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• When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

  Tom Glazer

  Music, Today, Specialty

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• Folk is bare bones music.

  Ben Harper

  Bones

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• I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

  Ben Harper

  Spiritual, Listening, Blind

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• I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

  PJ Harvey

  Growing Up, Communication, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

  Steven Johnson

  Organization, Empowering, Decision

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• I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

  Julian McMahon

  Father, Odd, Prime

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• When Americans are called on to innovate, that's what we do - whether it's making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances, or making sure that we are putting in place the kinds of equipment that prevents harm to the ozone layer and eliminates acid rain. At every one of these steps, there have been folks who have said it can't be done. There have been naysayers who said this is going to destroy jobs and destroy industry. And it doesn't happen because once we have a clear target to meet, we typically meet it. And we find the best ways to do it.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Rain, Ozone

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• Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means.

  Mac Davis

  Mean, Hell, Egotistical

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• Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.

  Daryn Kagan

  Challenges, Everyday, Looks

  "Life Sucks? Perfect Time To Give!" by Daryn Kagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.

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• I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

  Amos Lee

  Mean, Folk Music, Knows

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• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  Rachel Maddow

  Responsibility, Government, Records

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