Pete Seeger Quotes

At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

Pete Seeger

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• Risk

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Quotes to Explore

• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.

  

  Foster Friess
  • World
  • Work
  • Law

• Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Opportunities
  • White

• I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Society
  • Just
  • Opinions

• We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Body
  • Place
  • Need

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Power

• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Music
  • Live
  • Listening

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Character
  • American
  • Strong

• It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • Think
  • Right
  • Communication

• I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Will
  • Read
  • Reviews

• I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Speech
  • Roots
  • Grass

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • People
  • Leave
  • Watch

• I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Loved

• Education is all a matter of building bridges.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Education
  • Building
  • Bridges

• I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • Time
  • School
  • Song

• As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.

  

  Miranda July
  • Love
  • Know
  • Beauty

• At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Together
  • Song
  • Risk