Pete Seeger Quotes
When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.

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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I wouldn't wear really short dresses anymore - just don't feel comfortable in them.
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It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.
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Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!
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One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.
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When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.