Theodore Roethke Quotes
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
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The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
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Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
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It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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I would love to play a completely negative character if it's backed by a super script.
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If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.
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I was a real sugar junkie. I don't think I realised I was actually fully addicted to it.
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One thing my mom taught me was that when you're making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the night before. They've been sitting in the carton as they're transported, so the yolks settle on bottom. If you flip them, then the yolks aren't skewed to one side.
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They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'
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And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.
