Robert Trout Quotes

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Robert Trout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1909 - November 14, 2000

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I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

Robert Hass

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Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Michael Behe

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America will honor our treaty obligations.

John R. Allen

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I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

Steve Lacy

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You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

Roy Campanella

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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

Luke Bryan

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The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

Janine Benyus

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Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Dick Cheney

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I used to own a stuffed piranha, but I haven't seen it in years. I don't even know what happened to it. Maybe my wife didn't want it to make the move from the last house to this one.

Brian Posehn

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I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

William Shatner

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I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.

Seann William Scott

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