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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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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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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If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.
