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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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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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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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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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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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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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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.
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I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
