James Addison Baker Quotes

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

James Addison Baker

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• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Fear
  • Hair

• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Future
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Nature
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mother
  • Think
  • You

• I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Style
  • Natural
  • Played

• I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Career
  • Training
  • Week

• I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Think
  • Ever
  • Slow

• The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Band
  • Baby

• Books are still my favorite present.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Present
  • Books
  • Favorite

• Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Stage

• Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Good
  • True
  • Movie

• When I look into the Ericsson's mobility report that has predictions till 2018, the majority of people having mobile broadband by 2018 will be on 3G.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • People
  • Look
  • Mobile

• What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Money
  • Better
  • Understand

• When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Kid
  • Point
  • Inhale

• I asked you to conquer your fear, but all you did was give in to it. If you were in love with her, that would be one thing. Love is something to be afraid of, but this, this is embarrassing. So she talks too much, so she's too enthused about every little thing, so what? Get in, get your question answered, and get out. Stand up to her, for cryin' out loud!'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • She
  • Fear

• The journey is its own reward.

  

  Homer
  • Journey
  • Reward

• Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Health
  • Focus
  • Insurance

• Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

  

  Chris Vance
  • World
  • Action
  • Star

• If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.

  

  Adam Wingard
  • Scary

• It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Friends

• Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

  

  James Addison Baker