My folks have a cottage north of Kingston, which is literally in the middle of nowhere, and I can be there very happily for like a week.
Obamacare can’t work, folks. It just cannot.
We ultimately use good art as a tool for people to contextualize themselves, and the folks in all the places we play experience it how they will. All we’re doing is saying what we think. I never really wanted to be anyone’s hero.
We don’t need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in our small-business owners again and someone to champion those folks who play by the rules.
When a politician uses the word ‘folks,’ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
Everything bad happens to set up something good. I’ve always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they’ll see that.
We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.
If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you’re dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street – and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds – don’t have a bad memory. They don’t have any memory at all.
I think people – especially folks who haven’t seen a lot of NASCAR – they get this idea that we’re just going around in circles. And that’s so far from the truth. You’re running as hard as you can to get all you can every lap.
I don’t believe that all folks who supported Donald Trump are racist. I think that there was a lot of economic anxiety, there was a lot of economic panic. A lot of deep-rooted economic insecurity. I think what Trump did, you know, very astutely, was he tapped into this vein, and he promised them a job.
You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, ‘Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I’m going to hear all the things I don’t want to hear.’
When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.
Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. ‘Why does he kill these 22 people?’ If they say, ‘What difference does it make?’ I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.
Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?
The most powerful Vietnam movie, to me, was ‘The Deer Hunter,’ which was more about what happened to the folks who went and about their relationships.
You know, we’re a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I’m a momma’s boy. We all are. So there’s no exclusion in this family. You’re part of it. We embrace you and lift you up.
Folks should find what really inspires them; they should always pursue what they want to do.
It’s not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it’s extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.
With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that’s just not true.
I’m just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by ‘TIME Magazine?’
The recommendation when I’m mentoring folks, I always tell them – and we talked about this last year – take a risk.
The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks… we’re not asking you to invent new laws for us. We’re asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.
So my mom’s folks are from one side of Greensboro – and, you know, outside of Greensboro. And my dad’s folks, the white side, is from another very small town outside of Greensboro. So both sides are coming from the country.
Well I think that what we’re seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don’t have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
It’s nice to see how much the mainstream fashion community has been so accepting of it. It’s very exciting to see that folks finally want to make plus-size mainstream.
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – ‘next year.’
Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
If I was going to play offense, I’d love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn’t mind running over some folks.
But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we’re holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks – some thinkers and scholars I really look up – who reject the idea of intellectual compartmentalization.
Listen, we’ve got one little ol’ black president, and white folks are upset, but they’ve had 43.
I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on – why they had made it that way.
If Wikileaks didn’t resolve that question for folks – at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We’re living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
I do duets with folks like Randy Goodman, Aaron Neville, Bryan Adams, people like that.
I think yoga should be for everyone, not just the folks who change their name to something Hindu.
Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don’t have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.
Folks may not be familiar with Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, but they live with the effects of PBMs almost every time they go to fill a prescription and have to dig deep in their wallet to pay for it.
I don’t want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, ‘I have to support it because there’s black folks in there.’ I want them to go because it’s a good movie.
I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn’t very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.
We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else.
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood – really rough – in fact, rougher than I thought about.
Let’s not mince words: Everest doesn’t attract a whole lot of well-balanced folks. The self-selection process tends to weed out the cautious and the sensible in favor of those who are single-minded and incredibly driven. Which is a big reason the mountain is so dangerous.
The real issue is, are you available to the folks you represent? And I am.
Everywhere I go – from Main Street to Wall Street – people ask, ‘What’s happened to our political system? Why can’t Washington folks work together?’
My God, these folks don’t know how to love – that’s why they love so easily.
Governments spending billions on a humans-to-Mars program won’t allow wild-eyed billionaires to steal the glory; all heck will break loose as the public and sidelined governments decry and block the perceived cosmic land grab. Yet the private folks aren’t waiting.
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.
Long before folks fretted the demise of ‘quantitative easing,’ I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we’ve done okay not because of it, but despite it.
Space camp was actually, like, the best summer of my life. It was amazing. But I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer, and among computer science folks, Turing is this object of cult-like fascination.
My folks, I don’t think my mom or my dad ever missed a little league game or a football game.
I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren’t going to spend a bunch of money, they weren’t going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.
My folks were so worried about what they were going to do. All they can take was what they could carry with their hands. What they had for twenty-five years of building their business was going to go out the door, or they’re going to lose it.
