Quotes with folk-influenced

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  • Jonathan Swift She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Thomas Hardy Some folk want their luck buttered.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Billy Al Bengston The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Barry McGuire 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
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
    An A-Z of cultural terms, The Guardian (1992)
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Stokely Carmichael 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
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Molière There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Albert Claude This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Sir Thomas Beecham Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bryan Brown We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.
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  • Alain de Botton We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Adolph Green We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Ben Foster We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bono What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Buddha Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • T. S. Eliot When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Brad Delson Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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