Theodore Roethke Quotes
Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.
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Our interests are indeed common European interests, and the only way to serve them is by common means. That is why all Europeans, and all E.U. member states, have a collective responsibility to strengthen our Union.
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There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
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I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
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1) We want our loved ones' sacrifices to be honored by bringing our nation's sons and daughters home from the travesty that is Iraq IMMEDIATELY, since this war is based on horrendous lies and deceptions. Just because our children are dead, why would we want any more families to suffer the same pain and devastation that we are.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
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When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.
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The older I get, the more I have to think long and hard about what I need to say and why.
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The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.
