Theodore Roethke Quotes
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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We ran him and he just couldn't run.
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A loss (Sunday) would have meant your back was against the wall and you're pretty much fighting week to week just to survive. To wind up 5-3, this puts you in a much better position. ... It gives you the feeling that you're fighting for it rather than trying to come off the floor.
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I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.
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Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.
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I don't think they packed it in. I just thought we played great defense. I thought we moved the ball incredibly well and got open shot after open shot.
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The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.
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My calendar was empty. Touring the way we did and having a schedule like we did institutionalizes you in a way where you don't know anything else. I think I went through the darkest depression I've ever felt in my life.
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I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.
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The nobility of securing the people's will, is more important to me than Egypt's rule.
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The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.
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If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.