Folks Quotes - Page 18

• Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful

  Mike Harding

  Beautiful, Mother, Song

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• I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

  Rick Danko

  Lost Love, Play, Safe

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• We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

  Nikola Tesla

  Country, Hurt, Get Well

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

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• I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.

  Michelle Shocked

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.

  Mark E. Smith

  Son, Numbers, Groups

  "The Fall's Mark E. Smith Attacks Mumford & Sons" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 20, 2010.

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• When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives – it’s unfaked folk art. The dancers, crashing wave upon wave into those falls, have a happy insane spirit that recalls a unique moment in American life – the time we did the school play or we were ready to drown at a swimming meet. The last time most of us were happy in that way.

  Arlene Croce

  Art, Fall, School

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• Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

  Duane G. Carey

  Two, Space, Orbit

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• Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

  Sivananda

  Hate, Simple, World

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• People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

  Idries Shah

  Running, Fashion, Men

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.15, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

  Charles Evers

  Running, Country, Strong

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• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

  Judith Martin

  Emotional, Ties, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• It always blows me away when I see people freak out because I've changed my mind on something. I'm not an elected official, folks. I didn't get my job by promising a bunch of things. I'm a businessman and a creator. If I don't have the ability to change my mind, if I don't have the ability to be open to different points of view, then I can't do this job properly.

  Joe Quesada

  Jobs, Blow, Views

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• Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

  Grace Metalious

  Hurt, Watches, Alive

  Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.35, UPNE

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• Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve
  to get their butts chewed.
  Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back.
  What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment,
  and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

  Mills Lane

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

  William Faulkner

  Country, Letters, Reading Books

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• Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

  Vivien Leigh

  Cheating, Father, War

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• They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

  Alice Hoffman

  Notebook, Eye, Blue

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• Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Lying, Medicine, Patents

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• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  F. Sionil José

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Art

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• 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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• 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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