Theodore Roethke Quotes
What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
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Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.
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I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D., Hallmark and I to get back together.
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They took people at face value. If you did your job or held up your end, and treated them with the passing respect they accorded you, you were all right.
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Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.
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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?
