"In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music."

-- Pete Seeger

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“The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.”
“Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.”
“The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.”
“The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.”

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“The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.”
“The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.”

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“There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.”
“A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.”

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