"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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"I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place."
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"It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya."
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"The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow."
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"As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts."
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"I love folk; that's a big part of my background."
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"Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem."
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"anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!"
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"But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet."
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"I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do."
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"Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose."
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"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."
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"So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent."
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"As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly.""
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"Dally not with other folk's spouses or money."
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"She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks."
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