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Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the 80s. Folks who know me think its hilarious. — Rick Moranis

Folks, if you ever wake up feeling much better than originally anticipated, it's probably because you've overslept. — Martin Reed

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' — Kinky Friedman

All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature. — Bell Hooks

My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right. — Pat Conroy

Majority of folks out there are trying to make a difference. Don't just make a difference; become the difference! — Ogwo David Emenike

Who we are as African-Americans, as black folks in the diaspora, our cultural destiny, has been shaped by both the enslaved and the free. — Bell Hooks

Go crazy, folks! Go crazy!" - Game 5 1985 NLCS — John Buck

Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes — Thien

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection? — L.M. Montgomery

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others. — Moliere

The magic's back, folks. — Jordan Knight

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

A gentle hug for older folks - and anyone else - makes them feel like the treasures they are. - Dianna Brumfield - — Gary Chapman

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them. — Alison Eastwood

Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be. — George Eliot

He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad. — William Faulkner

Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise. — Rush Limbaugh

The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes — Kate Morton

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy? — Gene Simmons

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song — Oscar Isaac

Folks would discuss whether the Antichrist was already alive and, if so, which world leader it might be. — J.D. Vance

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. — Ma Rainey

Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'. — John Steinbeck

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. — Harper Lee

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town — Tom Waits

I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance floor. — Andrew Smith

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. — Gayla Reid

If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, you have to learn to smile while you kill — John Lennon

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best. — Topher Grace

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it. — Mary Stewart

Reality TV does actually have a message, folks. That message is selling and reinforcing capitalism, ignorance, and the status quo. — Kameron Hurley

My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about. — Gary Paulsen

Abe Lincoln once remarked that "most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." He was right. — Dale Carnegie

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. — Sam Wyly

My God, these folks don't know how to love
that's why they love so easily. — D.H. Lawrence

Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die. — Frank Zappa

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

Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize. — Barry Ritholtz

I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way. — Barack Obama

Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place. — George Herbert

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since. — Leo Kottke

Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me. — Kristin Chenoweth

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.' — Muhammad Ali

It was over. We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. Some of the folks in the audience had begun talking in — Stephen King

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away. — Lee Child

I'm glad folks think I look different, I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows. — Renee Zellweger

If the world wasn't so full of dead folks maybe those of us that's trying to live wouldn't have to suffer so bad. — James Baldwin

Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes. — Opal Whiteley

Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak; — Willard Mullin

I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business. — George Eliot

If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging. — Jason Calacanis

There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president. — Barack Obama

Some folks pray on it. Me? I write about it. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones. — Hope Mirrlees

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong. — Kirby Larson

Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment. — Kristan Higgins

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems. — Jim Cooper

Most folks are basically decent. If given the chance they will live and let live. But our world has been hijacked by the fear-driven rapacious. — Mark Landau

Lazy people are some of the most exhausted, dissatisfied, and ill-tempered folks around because the joy-backed promises of laziness our lies. — Matt Chandler

Life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die. — William Faulkner

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ... — Vita Sackville-West

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

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up. — Loretta Lynn

It's astonishing how folks can get so worked up over something that doesn't exist. — Margaret Atwood

Lots of folks have a hard life. It's an excuse for failure, not a reason. Life is what you make of it." These — Roger W. Buenger

In any case, in Vermont $500 is a lot of money for dinner. I hope these rich folks enjoyed themselves. — Bernie Sanders

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. — Anatole France

My folks were English ... we were too poor to be British. — Bob Hope

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life. — Michael Robotham

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them. — Chuck Palahniuk

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night — Harper Lee

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln

[ ... ] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [ ... ] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did. — Michael Nutter

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But I wasn't gonna be too scared to love the folks that took the time to love me back, and I sure wasn't gonna chase them that don't. — Susan Crandall

Nyx had to admit she had a soft spot for plain folks. There was something to be said for finding beauty in the rough. — Kameron Hurley

If Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now. — Donald Trump

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society. — Myron Scholes

Not everyone can come and post on Forbes; it's a very distinguishing factor for us. We vet the folks who come on board. — Michael Perlis

And many folks think there's bacon when there's not even a hook to hang it on. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. — Edward Abbey

A good hanging now and then
that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If you obey God with your whole heart, you'll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them. — Meg Moseley

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it. — Bill W. Clayton

Certain folks start playing Sindh Card despite having ravaged the life of the common Sindhi. — Imran Khan

The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me. — L.M. Montgomery

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing. — Jeff Bridges

We take care of each other like two monkeys picking each other's nits. Folks underestimate a good nit-pick. — Karen Marie Moning

These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross the line, there's no coming back. Mark my words. — Jack Gantos

Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life. — Rush Limbaugh

Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself. — Glennon Doyle Melton

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks. — Bob Keeshan

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. — George Eliot

There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em. — Louis Armstrong

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lots of folks want success without sacrifice. Life doesn't work that way. Be willing to pay the price for your dreams. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity. — Tony Parsons