Folks Quotes - Page 40

• My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

  Mo Yan

  Country, Unique, People

  "Nobel winner Mo Yan speaks up for jailed 'subversive' Liu Xiaobo" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, New York, Mean

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• I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Thinking, Singers

  "Ray LaMontagne focuses on the music". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2010.

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• While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

  Trent Lott

  Overcoming, Generations, May

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• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  Zachary Levi

  Believe, Differences, People

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

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• I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

  Claire McCaskill

  Asking, Pacs

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. April 23, 2012.

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• It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

  James McBride

  Lying, White, Black

  "Spike Lee’s Co-Writer Pens an Open Letter: “Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens.”". www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them.

  Rob Woodall

  People, Giving, Blame

  "Rob Woodall Won’t Give Up Government Health Care ‘Because It’s Free’ (VIDEO)". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Singers, Primitive, Infantile

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• I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

  Alberta Hunter

  Fun, Mean, Trying

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• For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  Native American, Thinking, Names

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• Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

  Brownie McGhee

  Running, Song, Guitar

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• We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

  Jack Kemp

  Needs, Helping, Rich

  "Jack Kemp Faces Reality", www.nytimes.com. May 7, 1989.

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• The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

  Carly Simon

  Rocks, Singers, Models

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• From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hero, Media, Criminals

  "Don't Blame The Dark Knight Rises for Theater Massacre" by Lewis Wallace, www.wired.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.

  Dar Williams

  Careers, Rocks, People

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• One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch — when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group — when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.

  Earl Lloyd

  Kids, Men, Years

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• Trans folks are going to rise up for their moments and their money!

  Hari Nef

  Moments, Trans

  "The dazed 100". www.dazeddigital.com.

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• If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage.

  Kevin Rudd

  Gay, Two, Normal

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• Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.

  Bob Torres

  Army, Order, People

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• My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

  Seth Gordon

  Tables, Dinner, Taught

  Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.ifc.com. September 30, 2010.

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• If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Party, Beer, Guy

  "My Dinner Party Nightmare" by Ellen Malcolm, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2008.

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• I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Mean, Issues, Clouds

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

  Herbert Gold

  Together, Conformity, Rebellion

  Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books

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