Theodore Roethke Quotes
Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion
Theodore Roethke
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
Vin Diesel
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
Saint Basil
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
Landon Liboiron
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
A. R. Rahman
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Campbell Scott
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
Bea Arthur
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln
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The beautiful seems rightBy force of Beauty, and the feeble wrongBecause of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.
Hillary Clinton
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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus Aurelius
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Barbara Demick
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I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim.
Trey Songz
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As it happens I don't think it was God- the woman who saved me, she doesn't look like she's had much to do with angels, Perhaps the Devil was behind me all the time.”
Paul Hoffman
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
Barry Manilow
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I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
Zack Snyder
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Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion
Theodore Roethke
