Pete Seeger Quotes

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

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• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Business
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  • Advertising

• Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • People
  • Bad
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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
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• You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Party
  • Win

• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Business
  • Interesting
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• When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

  

  Idris Elba
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• As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Society
  • Free

• I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Time
  • Great
  • Remember

• We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Remember
  • Looking
  • Wait

• Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Different
  • Country
  • True

• Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
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• I'm still swimming.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Swimming
  • Still

• America should function as a Christian nation.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • Christian
  • Nation

• Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Sister

• When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Hate
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• You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.

  

  R. Kelly
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• Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Together
  • Control
  • Technology

• There's something amazing that happens when you don't have to think about how you look so much.

  

  Annabelle Wallis
  • Amazing

• The biggest win of my career is coming.

  

  Francis Ngannou
  • Career
  • Coming
  • Biggest

• I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Good
  • Great

• Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good
  • Great
  • Children

• I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

  

  Zona Gale
  • Time
  • Men
  • Sleep

• I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

  

  Pete Seeger