"My mother was a very good violinist; my……" — Pete Seeger
"My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia."
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91 Quotes by Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger has 91 quotes on this site.
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If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of…
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I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that…
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If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.
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I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're…
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Do-so is more important than say-so.
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The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
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Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on…
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Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the…
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We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different…
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If there's something wrong, speak up!
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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the…
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More Academia Quotes
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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business…
— Hillary Clinton
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In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like…
— Sean Young
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Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
— Neil Steinberg
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They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
— Chris Hedges
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida.…
— Werner Herzog
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In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
— Robert Reich
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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men,…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the…
— Marvin Olasky
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Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range…
— Jacque Fresco
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I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.
— Mira Sorvino
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There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have…
— Christian Wiman
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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