Pete Seeger Quotes
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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You can't get dressed without good hair.
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
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A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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When I was 13, I read 'Et la paix dans le monde, Docteur?' a physician's account of working with Medecins Sans Fontieres during the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It was this book that inspired me to work for MSF.
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I'm trying to be a Leafs fan, but... Hopefully, in a couple of years, they might be good.
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
