Russell Baker Quotes

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

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• No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

  

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• I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

  

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• We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

  

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• There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

  

  Randy Houser
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• Reason is lost reasoning.

  

  Antonio Porchia
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• If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
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• The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.

  

  Jay-Z
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• I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

  

  Aziz Ansari
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• So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.

  

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• I felt at some times Kobe might have taken advantage of our flexibility.

  

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• The first female DPs that I was aware of were Ellen Kuras, Mandy Walker, Nancy Schreiber, Amy Vincent, Sandi Sissel, Maryse Alberti and Tami Reiker. You look for a role model as somebody who looks like yourself and is doing what you want to do; they were the handful.

  

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• Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

  

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• Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• What greater gift than the love of a cat.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

  

  Johnny Iuzzini
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• Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up

  

  Sahndra Fon Dufe
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• I look for something that grabs me and that's heartfelt, and that's coming from a good place. I want to work with good actors and with directors that I can learn from.

  

  Harry Treadaway
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• A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Miles
  • Primitive
  • Airports