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Intelligent people show intelligence by explaining complicated things simply. Foolish folk show foolishness by explaining simple things with big grammar
Reno Omokri
Intelligent
Complicated
Simply
Foolish
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Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Most
Folk
Happy
Mind
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston
You
Feeling
Abuse
Folks
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And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
Zora Neale Hurston
Easy
Thinking
Sympathy
Black
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Zora Neale Hurston
Catch
You
Scared
Lying
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
Zach Anner
Music
Love
Profound
Jazz
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When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.
Bob Dylan
Feel
Gut
Down
When
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge
Criticize
Obvious
Problem
Care
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Whatever foreign activists say, we must appreciate our military. When push comes to shove, they are the only folks defending us from terror.
Ben Murray-Bruce
Push
Shove
Terror
Military
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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Race
Never
Exist
Choice
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The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
Orhan Pamuk
Real
Question
How
Much
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I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.
Cyndi Lauper
Among
Color
Feel
Folks
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
Jeff Bezos
Common
Counting
Easy
Folks
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My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.
Leonard Nimoy
Alien
Became
Born
Boston
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D. H. Lawrence
Easily
Folks
God
Love
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek
About
Art
Background
Candy
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The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
Elvis Presley
Been
Colored
Doin
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It makes good sense for planners everywhere to provide more facilities in general that are aimed at older folks.
Chuck Norris
Everywhere
Facilities
Folks
General
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them
William Faulkner
Free
Country
Folks
Send
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman
Casting
Certain
Characters
Doubts
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman
African
Allowing
Comedy
Folk
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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
Harriet Tubman
Along
Always
Brothers
Folks
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Benjamin Lincoln
Folks
Happy
Minds
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There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Moliere
Decent
Deserve
Folk
Like
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Some folks stick to lies, even when told the truth. They love darkness than light, because their deeds are evil.
Femi Adesina
Folk
Lies
Truth
Love
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Femi Fani-Kayode
Stay
Strong
Folks
Survive
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Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.
Reid Hoffman
Activities
Doing
Entrepreneurial
Explosion
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I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
Kendrick Lamar
Able
About
Actually
Always
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My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
Kendrick Lamar
Always
Big
Big Family
Come
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Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience
Harper Lee
Live
Folks
Myself
Majority
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Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too.
Harper Lee
Cry about
People give
Even thinking
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Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.
Harper Lee
You study
Folks's business
Care
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The truth
Kindest
Give folks
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There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Political folks
Round
Plain right
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong
Folk
Folk Music
Heard
Horse
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne
Because
Business
Every
Every Time
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
Jackson Browne
After
Could
Couple
Folk
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.
Roger Ebert
About
Casually
Experience
Folks
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.
James Carville
About
Away
Bit
Books
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STOP letting folk make you think your discernment is off. You know what you see! You are too anointed to be disappointed. Too blessed to be stressed. And, too grateful to be hateful!
Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin
Folk
Stop
Discernment
Too blessed
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
James McBride
Being
Black
Filmmaker
Folks
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
James Russell Lowell
Folks
Hate
Never
Understand
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As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.
Jamie Foxx
Always
Black
Folks
Person
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Happy Sunday Folks. Never to be put down. Nigerians be vigilant, observe safety and hygiene advice. Wash hands regularly guys. Stay healthy a strong immune system can defeat Corona. Apparently as many people as are dying in Italy, equal or more are recovering and becoming immune...
Fred Amata
Never
Vigilant
Observe safety
Hygiene advice
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The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.
Mark Ruffalo
Working class
Poor
Normal people
World
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.
Aldo Leopold
Acts
Creation
Ordinarily reserved
Gods
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More than 60,000 fake COVID-19 websites were designed during the first three months of this year to steal information. While honest folks are asleep, the crooks are up are working.
Charles Onyango-Obbo
Websites
Were designed
Steal information
Honest folks
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk
Cicero
What sweetness
In life
Take away
Friendship
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German and French studies also showed that, yes, children can be infected at same rates. Still don't know the impacts/implications EXCEPT folks can stop saying kids aren't affected/don't transmit
Adia Benton
Showed that
Children
Be infected
Same rate
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Be careful out there folks Covid19 is still here. It has not disappeared with easing of lock down.
Bikiya Graham-Douglas
Be careful
Still here
Disappeared
With easing
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