Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just… — Ann Haywood Leal Copy Share Image
. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience... and millions of folks… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. And that's exactly what's pulling our country apart today. Because face it, folks,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or… — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image
The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks… — Bre Pettis Copy Share Image
It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm… — Drew Curtis Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out.… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I… — Matt Kuchar Copy Share Image
It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played… — David Grisman Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen… — Jerry Della Femina Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money,… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. — Stanley Walker Copy Share Image
All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
I have always been aware that I can never represent all trans people. No one or two or three trans people can.… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
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