Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others."
Folks quotes
Folks
212 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Oscar Isaac
Actor
"If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song"
Harper Lee
Novelist
"It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow."
Toni Cade Bambara
Writer, Activist
"Old folks are the nation."
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"Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other."
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"There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown."
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"You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses."
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"A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating."
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"When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers."
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"Difficult folk, these women!"
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"What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music."
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"It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job."
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"Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think."
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"What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before."
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"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."
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"If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that."
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"It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any."
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"More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context."
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"Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought."
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"Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them."
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"My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily."
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"Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values."
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"Folk is bare bones music."
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"I never saw myself as a folk singer."
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