Russell Baker Quotes
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
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I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.
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As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
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Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.
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Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!
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We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.
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I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
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The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.
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In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
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I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.
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A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.
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When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
