Pete Seeger Quotes
I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
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I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.
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I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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It's not something someone sets out to do - I never really set out to make movies about strong fighting women, but it just seems to happen that way. I've certainly known some, and I think my sister was probably a big influence.
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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
