Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

Topics

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When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.

Summer Sanders

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Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not Genghis Khan with a BlackBerry.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

Tom Perrotta

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Naturally, I do things my own way but I'm certainly influenced by my mother's way of doing things.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

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But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

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When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Loretta Lynn

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It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Judith Rossner

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We shot 'Super Troopers' on the side of the road in the summer in Poughkeepsie.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

Diane Ackerman

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I remember somewhere in his 70s, my dad started wearing a nightgown - like an old-school grandpa gown! I can see how that might be somewhere in my future.

Dierks Bentley

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I love meat and vegetables. If I did a diet, I would do Paleo, except they have no cheese, which is very upsetting. I'm going to start my own Chrissy diet that's like Paleo plus cheese. Plus late Saturday night drive-through.

Chrissy Teigen

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