Quotes with folks

  • As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
  • Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
  • All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
  • Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
  • The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
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  • Dick Gregory Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Will Rogers I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Bill Frist America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bob Dylan And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
    To the old folks home and the college
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • August Wilson As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Brit Morin At Brit + Co , we're always on the hunt for motivated, smart, and creative folks. And I must admit, we have received some pretty unique resumes.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bre Pettis Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Bono But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Carl Forti Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.
    Carl Forti
    American Republican Party strategist (1972 - )
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  • Barack Obama Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bert Lance Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bill Janklow Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Harper Lee Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • James Russell Lowell Folks never understand the folks they hate.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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