Quotes with folks

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  • David Mitchell Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.
    Ghostwritten (2017) 350
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert For me, I write some songs that are really important to me, and I've got some feedback where some of them help folks and inspire people.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Josh Billings I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Barack Obama I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
    President Obama Misses Anonymity, People-Watching - ABC News website, 11 April 2011
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Donald Trump I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Birch Bayh In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Douglas Adams Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Kin Hubbard Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Frank A. Clark Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • William S. Burroughs 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.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Barack Obama My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anatole France 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.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Barack Obama Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Lillian Smith Rich folks always talk hard times.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Alice Walker She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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