Folks Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

  Brent Musburger

  House, Thanks, Down The Road

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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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• Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mom, Country, Laughter

  Shel Silverstein, “Ticklish Tom”

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Silly, Vegas, Gambling

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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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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• If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Sincere, Condom

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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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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• Most folks call them green onions, but
  they're really scallions.

  Stan Freberg

  Onions, Green

  Song: Christmas Dragnet

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• I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

  Mick Mulvaney

  Ceilings, Would Be, Debt

  "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.

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• And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Book, Struggle, Giving

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. 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, Mistake, Believe

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