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

  

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

  

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

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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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
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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
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• 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
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  • 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
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• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  

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

  

  Edmund Barton
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• 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
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  • 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
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  • Rock

• To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

  

  Mary Queen of Scots
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Like

• I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

  

  Mike Oldfield
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Lifetime

• There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.

  

  Fritz Perls
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• Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.

  

  Wright Patman
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• Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Desert

• 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