Theodore Roethke Quotes
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
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We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
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You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay.
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
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I love men's butts.
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More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.
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It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.
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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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'Best in Show' legitimized me, and it was a great experience in Vancouver for six weeks with all those dogs!
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.
