Russell Baker Quotes

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Russell Baker

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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  • Why
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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Time
  • You
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• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
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• Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
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• Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
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• I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Succeed

• Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Find

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
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• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Taken

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Game
  • Girl

• Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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  • Stop
  • Practice

• I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • Education
  • Should
  • System

• The rules followed are tight enough to produce a broad overlap in the decisions taken by all individuals and hence a convergence powerful enough to be labelled human nature.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Taken
  • Powerful

• I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Desire
  • Taken
  • Rock

• The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • People
  • Taken
  • Professional

• Always the sightseers: open-mouthed, disbelieving. There was a force for desolation loose in their midst which could consume their lives at a glance, surely they could see that? But they’d watch anyway, willing to embrace the void if it came with sufficient razzmatazz.

  

  Clive Barker

• In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Change
  • Adaptability

• But down from the end of the path it looked so charming that she wished she could paint it in watercolours—the great trees, the tempered sunlight, the glimpse of the old church at one end, the glimpse of the embosomed lake at the other, and in the middle, set out so neatly, with such a grace of spotlessness, the table of her first tea-party.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Church
  • Grace
  • Charming

• Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

  

  Russell Baker
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  • Happiness
  • Goal