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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Nature River Own Limitations Even

We all have different ways to do things.

Things Different Different Ways Ways

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Education Me Segregation Shaped Many

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

Woman Hair Fake You Look Strange

The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't look much like it used to, but it's more comfortable, and there's probably a lot of wear left in it.

John Shelton Reed

Blue Look Comfortable More Jeans

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

Doing You Back Everyone Drums Like

My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then at one point, the bookmobile started coming to town. That was really cool. I mean, that was when I read my first Raymond Carver story. I think that was probably 1969 or so. I must have been 13.

Humor Cool Story Think Grey Mean

My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.

Time Wife Writing Brooklyn Kind She

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Person Okay Always Out Something

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

Fun Big Would Like Lyrics Blondie

Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.

People Feel Enough Unions Anything

I started watching 'Daria' when I was in college because I didn't have cable growing up. It's such a smart show with a different type of female character.

Phoebe Robinson

Character Smart College Growing Up

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Truth Believe Speak Trying Lesson

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