Theodore Roethke Quotes
When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
Quotes to Explore
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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For me, I always try to make it to the final.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
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I like to keep a low profile.
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
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Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.
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Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.
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I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.
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When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
