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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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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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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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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If you'd stop being a Metallica fan because I won't give you my music for free, then fuck you. I don't want you to be a Metallica fan.
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It's awesome that my job is to make people have reactions.
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Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.
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To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before.
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I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.
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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.
