Russell Baker Quotes
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.Russell Baker
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
Valentino Rossi -
Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
Harold Ross -
I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
Dallas Roberts -
The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
Octavia Spencer -
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
Vernor Vinge -
Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
Jack Whitehall
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Maeve Binchy -
I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!
Lakshmi Pratury -
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk -
Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
Gary Herbert -
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
Salman Rushdie -
You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
Sally Hawkins
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
Gary Wolf -
People never notice anything.
J. D. Salinger -
I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.
Laura Benanti -
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
Al Stewart -
Spread the sickness, infect the world.
David Draiman Disturbed -
If any of us caught a fever during pregnancy, we would seek advice and support from a doctor. Getting help with our mental health is no different - our children need us to look after ourselves and get the support we need.
Kate Middleton
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For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.
Kristen Stewart -
There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong.
Mort Sahl -
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx -
Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.
Gary Lachman Blondie -
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Russell Baker