Theodore Roethke Quotes
My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
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If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
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My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
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There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt, there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.
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My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.
