Folks Quotes - Page 38

• I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

  Denver Moore

  Different, Done, Kind

  Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.235, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The President must be true to his word. He must keep his faith with the folks who elected him twice. In other words, he must replace Sandra Day O'Connor with a strict constructionist. The president has a God-given opportunity to change the balance on the Supreme Court. On issue after issue—abortion, sodomy, public display of the Ten Commandments—O'Connor has sided with the court's liberal bloc. Time and again, Justice O'Connor and her colleagues have used the Constitution as an excuse to force weird social experiments on the nation.

  Rick Scarborough

  Opportunity, Issues, Justice

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• Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

  Michelle Shocked

  Punk, Form, Folk Music

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• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

  Barry McGuire

  Next Steps, Roger, Influence

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• My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

  Hugh Hefner

  Home, Kissing, People

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• What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Creative, Stuff

  "SXSW: Morgan Spurlock Calls Distributing Docudrama 'Connected' on AOL 'Freeing'" by Natalie Jarvey, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 14, 2015.

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• Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.

  Bella Bathurst

  Sex, Medicine, Scandal

  "Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction by Tracy Borman - review" by Bella Bathurst, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2013.

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• I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

  Jez Butterworth

  Trying, Example, Different

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• We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

  Jane Elliott

  Country, Vegetables, Differences

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• I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

  Jane Siberry

  Rocks, Space, Trying

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• Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

  John Betjeman

  Hymns, Tunes, Folk Music

  Radio Talk. BBC Radio 4, August 2, 1978.

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• If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.

  Ronnie Lott

  Running, School, Play

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Mean, Ku Klux Klan, White

  Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.85, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?

  Edge

  Thinking, Wwe, Giving

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• The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blood, Community, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• The Mexican people I know seem to respect the country in a way that many spoiled brats who were born here don't. So come on over folks, the more the merrier. But please, sign the guest book on the way in.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, Book, People

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• Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to explain to your readers the significance of grown-ups getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to go around in circles indefinitely, always turning left. In the other, you get to interview racecar drivers.

  Mary Katharine Ham

  Circles, Political, Trying

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• Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that they can't man up and defend their love for collectivism? The only reason they scream race, is because that debate scares them. They know a racial accusation prevents dialogue, because such a harmful charge far outweighs any benefits of winning an argument.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Men, Winning, Blood

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• I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. And that's exactly what's pulling our country apart today. Because face it, folks, we are a divided nation. Not between Democrats or Republicans, or conservatives and liberals, or tops and bottoms. No, we are divided by those who think with their head, and those who know with their heart.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Book, Heart

  "Happy Anniversary, Stephen Colbert" by Rachel Sklar, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.

  Bell Hooks

  Art, Believe, Reading

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• Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

  Serj Tankian

  Records, World, Zeppelins

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

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• Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for freedom and has given this craving a folk expression which includes every soul in Israel, every single downtrodden pauperized soul!

  Berl Katznelson

  Pain, Heart, Israel

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• The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Song, Horse, Cowboy

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• Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.

  Mulgrew Miller

  Art, Jazz, Progressive

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• The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.

  Langston Hughes

  Death, Fall, Phones

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.15, Hill and Wang

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