Folks Quotes - Page 33

• From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Pearls, Advertising, Wonderful

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• I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Food, Sleep, Cooking

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• God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

  Philip Appleman

  Atheist, Thinking, Answers

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• An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Art, Drama, Intelligent

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.114, DoctorZed Publishing

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• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  Major Owens

  Rights, Two, People

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• My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fun, War

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business. So love is the totality of the self. My dear folks, if you cannot find yourself, you can never find anybody you want to find.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Self

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• These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Asks

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2014

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• My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Boston, Hollywood

  "R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2015.

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• We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

  Scott Putesky

  Noise, Youth, Psychedelic

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• More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

  Tom Robbins

  Soul, Waxing, Mystery

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• But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

  Margaret Spellings

  Believe, Holding On, Program

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

  George Strait

  Thank You, Country, Careers

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• My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

  Bob Hope

  Blood, One Line, Facts

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• Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

  David Oliver Relin

  People, Age, 80s

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• Different strokes for different folks.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Different

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• The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

  Stephen King

  Life, Hate, Love You

  STEPHEN KING (1977). “THE SHINING”

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• The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they’re willin’ to lose everything. If they win, they’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.

  Puggy Pearson

  Real, Mean, Winning

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• Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

  Stanley Walker

  Running, Manners, Instinct

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• We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

  Charlie Daniels

  Beer, Play, Aggravation

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• Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Notebook, Writing, Angel

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• Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.

  John Wayne

  Country, Song, Cowboy

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.33, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

  Sheryl Crow

  Military, Real, Patriotic

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• If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sex, Gay, Fighting

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• The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

  Nelson Mandela

  Ordinary, Enjoy, Handcrafted

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.159, Pan Macmillan

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