Theodore Roethke Quotes
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We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.
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There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.
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I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.
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... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
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I am too young and I've loved you too much.
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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
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I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing and I had done another. And so?
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A man has a right to want to live.
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Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future generations, we must be able to say we exercised our stewardship wisely and responsibly.
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I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.
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People saw her pretty elf face and red-gold curls and immediately concluded that she was on the side of angels and paladins. In Sharlarra’s opinion, people that shallow and stupid deserved to be robbed.
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I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point.
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Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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Anybody can get hit over the head.
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I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. And it's funny, I've started to notice it, I started to see it after a while, that that's kind of a way of writing that I was doing. But I didn't set about to do that.
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Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. “Again I didn’t win? But last year I didn’t win also!”
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To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - Thomas More burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.
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I don't think we're totally responsible. But you know, all the bands said it, that we did. Even Courtney Love said that. Anyway, Courtney called her band Hole, get it? Slits? Hole? So it's pretty clear we were an influence on all of them, but I'm not really sure how far it goes. I was on a different planet at the time.
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Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
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Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
