Pete Seeger Quotes

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

Pete Seeger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014

Topics

LiveSpiritWayWonderfulGenerous

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

Joe Sacco

MyselfPeopleMoreNeglectedTried

Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

Jenny Lawson

WorkBestBookHurtEndBetter

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.

Andrew Solomon

LifeMotherLiveWisdomRelationship

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

John O. Brennan

IntelligencePeopleAmericanMatters

My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it.

Anna Maxwell Martin

FatherFaithParentsYouUnderstand

As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

Ann Rinaldi

HistoryMyselfWarChildGrowing Up

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

MoneyCorruptionToo MuchAvailable

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

Jann Klose

StyleWritingSongsMakingReally

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Jose Bergamin

YouWayGoingGetAnywhereEven

Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done in the way I did in New York.

Chris Gethard

New YorkPeopleWeirdNewSometimes

Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

InterestingAmericaPlaceTellLived

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

Christo

WorkArtPeopleThinkCreateBuild

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