Folks Quotes - Page 19

• I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

  James McBride

  Men, White Man, Understanding

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• I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

  Mark Lawrence

  Hate, Rocks, Climbing

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.197, Penguin

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• The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.

  Philip Greenspun

  Art, Stars, Book

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• My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, World, May

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• TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

  Lee Clow

  Attention, Lines, Tvs

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• I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.

  James Gosling

  Careers, People, Interesting

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• Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

  Alex Haley

  Powerful, Littles, Tools

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• There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

  Dave Alvin

  Play, Two, Quiet

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• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

  Daniel Suarez

  Average, Bmw, Two

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.5, Penguin

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• Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. 'The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.'

  Jerry Della Femina

  Thinking, Lines, Pearls

  "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor". Book by Jerry Della Femina, 1970.

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• You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

  Jodi Thomas

  School, Thinking, Everyday

  Jodi Thomas (2010). “Welcome to Harmony”, p.21, Penguin

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• In the end . . . . . . . Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.

  Philip Gulley

  Trying, Might, Remember

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.88, Zondervan

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• I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Coffee, Mean, Water

  Nancy E. Turner (2010). “Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906”, p.265, Macmillan

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• Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

  Thurston Moore

  Real, Taken, Play

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• I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes

  Steve Tanner

  Wish, Use

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• The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

  Cornel West

  People, Abuse, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jan 04, 2017

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• You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

  Russell Baker

  Smile, Opportunity, Feel Good

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• Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.

  Colin Jordan

  Past, Men, Immortality

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• Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.

  Rose Fyleman

  Eye, Wings, Shining

  Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”

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• Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Wire, Fence, Barbs

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• Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime.

  Wally Byam

  Home, Talking, People

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• Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Airplane, Blow

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• There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Native American, People, Want

  Remarks by the President on Immigration in Chicago, Illinois, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 25, 2014.

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• I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

  Gene Robinson

  Gay, Thinking, Church

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