Folks Quotes - Page 39

• I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

  Joanna Newsom

  Get Away, I Can, Sensibility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

  Nick Offerman

  Gun, Fishing, Important

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• My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.

  Kal Penn

  Trying, Lots Of Friends, Jersey

  "Kal Penn – From Hollywood to the White House and back to the big screen". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. November 6, 2011.

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• To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: Be careful.

  Kal Penn

  Columbia, Be Careful, Walking

  "The GQA: Kal Penn". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

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• The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

  Jason Calacanis

  Funny, Thoughtful, Care

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• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

  Cat Power

  Country, Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.

  Bev Perdue

  Tired, America, People

  "On @CNNSOTU today: Gov. Bev Perdue, @GovernorOMalley, and @villaraigosa discuss #DNC2012". Interview with Candy Crowley, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 2, 2012.

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• Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

  Rob Portman

  Years, Four, Agree

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• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  Sam Palladio

  Kind, Surfer, Celtic

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• Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

  Erik Qualman

  Want, Heard

  "Could Student's Facebook Page Topple a Towing Company?" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.

  Jimmy Reid

  Song, House, Genius

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• But the reality is that we are a folk band.

  Amy Ray

  Reality, Band

  "Another side of Amy Ray" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.

  John Shelton Reed

  Hands, People, Black

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• I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

  Lara Spencer

  Art, Enough, Folk Art

  "ABC's Lara Spencer can't wait to host 'Antiques Roadshow' in 2004". Interview with Mary Daniels, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2003.

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• This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

  Sonja Sohn

  New York, Moving, Careers

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• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  Gary Larson

  Silly, Ideas, Drawing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

  Joshua Leonard

  Thinking, Long, Want

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• When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Mad, Laughing, Shapes

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

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• The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, People

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• When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

  Michael Storm

  Guitar, Rage, Banjos

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• I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Fun, Trying, Stories

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• Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.

  Sissy Spacek

  Home, Guitar, Support

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• I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Fighting, Cutting

  "Upton wins House energy gavel" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. December 07, 2010.

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• I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

  Sam Wyly

  Writing, Long, People

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• Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

  Ann Wilson

  Rocks, Band, Fleetwood Mac

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