Folks Quotes - Page 29

• White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

  Son House

  White, Blues Music, Singing The Blues

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• That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.

  Benh Zeitlin

  Religious, Art, Men

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• Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

  Johnny Ramone

  Hippie, Thinking, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Feb 25, 2015

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• But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a bridge. And so they [my parents] got together, Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Home, Bridges

  Barack Obama's speech in Selma, Alabama, as reported in CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", edition.cnn.com. March 4, 2007.

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• It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Thinking, Want

  "Obama Fires a ‘Robin Hood’ Warning Shot". nypost.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

  Barack Obama

  Kind, American Values, Core

  "Transcript of President Barack Obama with Univision". Interview with Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 25, 2010.

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• There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

  Barack Obama

  Dislike Me, Ideas, Black

  "Going the Distance". Interview with David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Don't be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone's bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don't hurt anybody, what's it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn't made TUSK? If I'd let it die as a podcast? I wouldn't have three other movies I'm now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.

  Kevin Smith

  Dream, Hurt, Stupid

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Guitar

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• To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

  C. B. Cebulski

  Writing, Asking, Comic Book

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• Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, People, Evil

  "Homebody". Book by Orson Scott Card, March 4, 1998.

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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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• White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what.

  Margaret Walker

  White, Justice, Black

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.485, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Parent, Want, Stills

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

  Kin Hubbard

  Thinking, Justice, Ifs

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• 'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.

  Antonio Banderas

  Change, Couple, Talking

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• The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil........We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Fda, Evil

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• We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Insightful, Insane

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• I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

  Graham Coxon

  Guitar, Lovely, Littles

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• I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

  Mark Knopfler

  Play, Guitar, Bass

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• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  Randy Bachman

  Son, Rocks, Community

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• Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

  Alan Parsons

  Real, Artist, Rocks

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

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• I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

  Roger McGuinn

  Song, Couple, Play

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• We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

  William Barnes

  Pride, Journey, Feet

  William Barnes (1869). “Poems of Rural Life in Common English”, p.132

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