Pete Seeger Quotes
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I'm an emotional person.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a fad way of talking among certain people. It's based on the concept that in every syllable before the vowel and after the preceding constant you insert the word 'egg.' So, my name Phil would be 'Pegghil.'
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With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
