Pete Seeger Quotes
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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I know I look super young.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.
