Pete Seeger Quotes

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

Pete Seeger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I AmProudNeverSingAnybodyAm

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

Jerry Jeff Walker

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We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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At Bonobos, we believe that human beings are tired of shopping in stores.

Andy Dunn

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

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The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

John Stossel

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If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

Trace Adkins

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I was a very shy kid. Very shy. But I started doing theatre when I was six years old, and that really changed something. My more playful side came out of me.

Sigrid

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I don't know if people know that Sylvester Stallone is one of the most decent gentlemen that I've ever met. He's the most consistent friend I've ever had.

Tom Sizemore

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Bob Gates is really emblematic of the modern CIA. He joins it in 1968, just a day before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. And, of course, he rises very quickly. In less than six years, he's on the National Security Council staff, at the closing weeks of Richard Nixon's presidency and then on into Gerald Ford.

Roger Morris

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There is simply no defending the preferred mode of travel for many of the celebrity crazies who lecture us about carbon credits. Do you think these folks are willing to give up their mansions and private jets in order to 'save the planet?'

Mike Gallagher

TravelThinkYouCelebrityPlanet

I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.

Mike Love

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As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team.

Mitch McConnell

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