Pete Seeger Quotes
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.
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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
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When we're on vacation - it doesn't matter where - I will go and look for a game.
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Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.
