Folks Quotes - Page 24

• If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that either. But what we have learned, is that the one thing that poor folks of color can ask for and get are Police & Prisons.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, School, Color

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• When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

  Jackson Browne

  Couple, Kids, Years

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• I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

  Bobby Cannavale

  Silly, Bigs, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

  Ani DiFranco

  Feminism, Folk Music

  MuchMusic Interview, 2003.

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• I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my memories aged nought to ten are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

  Johnny Vegas

  Fun, Memories, Kids

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• The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

  Stokely Carmichael

  Running, White, Scared

  Address at March Against Fear, 1966.

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• The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

  George W. Bush

  War, Extremist Groups, America

  www.nbcnews.com. August 15, 2006.

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• Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

  Moliere

  Ridiculous, Behavior

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• If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!

  Lewis Black

  People, Leader, Groups

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• But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

  John Shimkus

  Illinois, Kentucky, Drug

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• Dealing with race is about educating white folks.

  Howard Dean

  Race, White

  "Dean's blunt talk about race". archive.boston.com. January 2, 2004.

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• One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  M. C. Escher

  Beauty, Art, Brother

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• Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.

  Arthur Caplan

  Fall, Kids, Eugenics

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• I have thought briefly about getting caught in rock slides or falling from a rock face. If that happened, I would probably perish on the mountain in much the same way many of the big animals do. I would be long gone before anyone found me. My only wish would be that folks wouldn't spend a lot of time searching. When the time comes for a man to look his Maker in the eye, where better could the meeting be held than in the wilderness?

  Richard Proenneke

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

  Jerry Brown

  Liars, Criminals, Thieves

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• Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Religious, Healing, Medicine

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• Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

  Marvin Olasky

  Tired, Organization, Effort

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• To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

  Larry Wall

  Ordinary, May, Explicit

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• There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

  Charlie Munger

  Strong, Swimmer

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• God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.

  Joshilyn Jackson

  Helping, Cry, Needed Help

  Joshilyn Jackson (2012). “Gods In Alabama”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting into that discussion with them. I don't believe I'm compromising on my gameplay ideals at all. [But] any artist who doesn't want his or her work in front of the largest audience possible is nuts.

  Warren Spector

  Believe, Artist, Nuts

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• It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

  Kurt Weill

  Song, Musical, Use

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• I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Python, Long

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