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
  • You
  • 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
  • Want

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

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• 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
  • Social Media

• When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Thought
  • Kid
  • Tough

• 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
  • Love
  • Romantic

• 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
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Night

• 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
  • Attention
  • Friend

• 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
  • Want
  • You
  • Classy

• 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

• If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • Talk

• We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Art

• You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Guy
  • Car

• Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

  

  Mother Angelica
  • Knows
  • Ridiculous
  • Willing

• You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Yourself

• 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