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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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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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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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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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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I want to be a dominant pass rusher. I think I can do that with my body type and my work ethic.
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People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.
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Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.
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Slow down, you crazy child.You're so ambitious for a juvenile.
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2) Never fire a laser at a mirror.
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Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
