Pete Seeger Quotes
I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Each thought himself, especially since this last promotion, to be indispensably necessary to the formation of London society, and was comfortable in the conviction that he had thoroughly succeeded in life by acquiring the privilege of sitting down to dinner three times a week with peers and peeresses.
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For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
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There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
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I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.
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I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.
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I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.
