Pete Seeger Quotes
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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War is over if you want it.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.
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There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.
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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
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Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
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People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.
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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
