When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
So they actually put it into their mission statement, and they start changing things as a result. They may change how worship… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Folks, let me ask you a question about that. You voted in 2010, 2014. You're part of the Tea Party and you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Seeing a patter doesn't mean you know how to put it all together. Take baby steps: don't focus on the folks whose… — Kate Jacobs Copy Share Image
Folks still remember the day ole Bob Riley came bouncing down that dirt road in his pickup. Pretty soon, it was bouncing… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks… — Steve Lawson Copy Share Image
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back,… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
In South Korea, there's a lot of folks who are already saying this deal doesn't go far enough. And I had one… — Elise Hu Copy Share Image
He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the… — Darrell Waltrip Copy Share Image
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new, My dinner, dress, associates,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close… — Gail Ann Dorsey Copy Share Image
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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