Theodore Roethke Quotes
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.
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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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I hope I am allowed to say that the reason I am popular is because of the way I am, the way I race, and the way I talk. I am just the old-fashioned, reliable guy, and people always know I am after one thing: 'There is Jens. He will go in the breakaway.'
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It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.
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Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the prov.
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I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
