Theodore Roethke Quotes
What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
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If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
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I was really from the streets, and I really did hustle in a major way. When I got my record deal, I left the streets alone as far as hustling. I never, ever hustled again. I said, 'I'm gonna change my life, I'm going legit. This is where I'm at.'
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My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
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As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.
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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.
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All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
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Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.
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The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.
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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
