Peter Yarrow Quotes
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
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To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.