Theodore Roethke Quotes
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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'I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.' 'You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks,' Gansey mused as he began to walk again. Blue blinked. 'What?' Over his shoulder, Gansey said, 'Next to the wall plug.'
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The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
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I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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Here.It will blind you with tearslike a lover.It will make your reflectiona wobbling photo of grief.
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Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
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'Why ‘threep’? Why ‘clank’? Slang happens.'
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The composer (organizer of sound) will be faced not only with the entire field of sound but also with the entire field of time. The 'frame' or fraction of a second, following established film technique, will probably be the basic unit in the measurement of time. No rhythm will be beyond the composer's reach.
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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
