Pete Seeger Quotes
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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I'm just not very funny.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can't help but be a bit of a gypsy as an adult. I get fidgety if I'm in one place for longer than three months.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.
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I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.
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'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
