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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Society Young Silent Nothing

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

John Sununu

Technology Moving Hands Consequences

Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!

Amity Gaige

Nobody Will Write Give Would Like

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

Steven Pinker

Nature Book Constitution Connections

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Tori Amos

Driven Idea Characters Form Similar

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

Tony Abbott

Good Think Anything Principle Thing

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

Roger Zelazny

Better Die You Company Than About

Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a network - or anyone, really - because it's up against the ego.

RuPaul

Ego Seriously Why Hard Up Changing

I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

Mitski

Music Time Me Think Chill Hard

I would be upset if I was on the 'worst dressed'. It would make me think, 'Surely I haven't done anything that horrific - have I?'

Louise Nurding

Me Think Dressed Done Upset Worst

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Lou Reed

Nostalgia Mine Like Unless

Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.

Josh Gad

Bullying Identity Think New Know

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Work Someone You Sometimes Honest