Pete Seeger Quotes

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

Pete Seeger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeThinkAmericanMy LifeYou

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

YouWantJustSomebodySongsTen

Nick's just from this very Norman Rockwell-ish family. They're very 'American Gothic,' and his parents are so kind, and they're not brash people; they're very soft spoken, salt of the earth.

Megan Mullally

FamilyParentsPeopleAmericanEarth

I felt great empathy for the thousands of Americans who lost their home because of a system that failed them.

Steve Mnuchin

HomeGreatEmpathyLostSystemWho

What works most effectively for quelling disease outbreaks like Ebola is not quarantining huge populations. What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This strategy worked with SARS, and it worked during the H1N1 flu pandemic.

Tom Frieden

SickStrategyRiskFluContactLike

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

Rithy Panh

FreedomArtYouDefend

I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.

Rob Halford

LifeLiveRegretThinkYouWant

Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.

Ross Butler

CharacterOpportunityAmericanWhite

We've all had that moment, the first time you're exposed to live theater, and it's shocking in the best possible way. You see something and say to yourself, 'I didn't know this could exist.'

Joshua Jackson

LiveTimeMomentBestYourselfYou

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Jaron Lanier

AdvertisingLookingInterestingHuman

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

Dolly Parton

SimpleSongI CanCountryWrite

When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.

Chris Hadfield

TogetherSpaceRestPictureYouSee

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

Alice Walker

DoingYouAlwaysSomethingJust

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