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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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.
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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.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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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.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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I'm still swimming.
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America should function as a Christian nation.
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
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Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
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When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.
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I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
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There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
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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.
