Theodore Roethke Quotes
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.
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I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
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I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
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There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.
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One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.
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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
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When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
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You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.
