Pete Seeger Quotes

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Pete Seeger

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• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Together
  • Future
  • Society

• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Men
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  • Learn

• I love funk and soul and Motown.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Funk

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Create

• You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Education
  • Security

• 'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.

  

  Sampha
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Leave

• Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • May
  • Desire
  • Possible

• I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Giving
  • Enjoy
  • Speeches

• I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• We like lists because we don't want to die.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Want
  • Die
  • Like

• Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • You
  • Violence

• Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Real
  • Future

• We do not need an Osami <sic> bin Laden leading us.

  

  Pat Robertson

• The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Truth
  • Free

• The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but ifsome kind of sin you must be pursuing,Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Remember
  • Moral

• As I said, it was inevitable, and I don’t let laws of nature upset me.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Nature

• Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Why
  • Quality
  • Spiritual

• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Game

• Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.

  

  David Ortiz
  • People
  • Why
  • Everyday

• This time, I’m just going to do it. I’m going to cure him. Because why not? It would be so easy.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Cure

• I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

  

  Pete Seeger