I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest; Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour.
The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.
Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
my face I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it-- 'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking. '
Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.
What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.
We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.
There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.
Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.