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My father always made an amazing meatloaf, and I've inherited his skill. Leftover meatloaf in a sandwich? Come on!
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.
Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
My dad, was the archetypal charming man. If I've inherited even a small bit of what he had that would be enough for me.
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
I have inherited pace from my dad, and in terms of the physical side with the balance, I have inherited that from my mum.
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
I've inherited my mom's nurturing side, but I've also gotten her 'chronically five minutes late for everything' side, too!
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
I can do anything I want with the rest of my body, but the face is something I've inherited. I should thank my parents for it.
Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.
I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century.
There are many wrestlers in my mother's family. So I guess I've inherited my love for wrestling from my mother's side of the family.
I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.
People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
I definitely inherited a lot of from both my grandmothers and from my mother. I wear a lot of pieces that used to belong to other people.
I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.
Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.
I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.
We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries of human habitation.
One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.
Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.
My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.
Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.
I have inherited my father's responsibilities, not privileges. One of the members of his family had to continue his legacy of social responsibility.
If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
I've got royal blood coursing through my veins and if the boxing bug is 'something I've inherited through the family bloodline, I'm proud of my genes.
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
We have inherited both Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray. We love them and we respect them and we adore them, so we also have the right to critique them.
When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.
We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.