Pete Seeger Quotes

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Pete Seeger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

Ron Fournier

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When I retired from Aetna, I became part of the private equity world. It turned out to be a natural fit.

Ron Williams

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Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.

Marvin Ammori

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People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

Jay-Z

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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

Jon Meacham

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I want to be calm.

Courteney Cox

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Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

Bryan Robson

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When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Arthur Machen

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I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Athol Fugard

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It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in fact, driven by the story.

Pete Docter

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The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in.

Rick Dees

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