Russell Baker Quotes

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

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• Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Live
  • Government
  • Find

• A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • She
  • Friend
  • English

• The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Stock
  • Data

• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Become
  • Civilized

• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Best
  • New York

• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Today
  • Best
  • inspirational

• My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Baseball

• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Stupidity
  • Sent

• In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Language
  • Act
  • System

• I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Know
  • Like
  • Discipline

• I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

  

  Beck
  • Want
  • Attention
  • More

• I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Baseball

• I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Opportunity

• He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn’t understand tea at all.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • America
  • Tea
  • Result

• I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Perfect

• It's like shock on their face. Because they're like, 'I cannot believe I enjoyed your concert'.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Believe
  • Face
  • Shock

• When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Cross
  • Round
  • Saviour

• Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Happiness
  • Inside
  • Depends

• I felt like there was a void in the marketplace in girl groups. Musically, there is something truly exciting about harmonies in one song. A group has more to offer.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Harmony

• I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

  

  Gary Condit
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Mistakes

• The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Ancient

• There was such a wonderful setting of the moon this morning, the yellow moon against little pink clouds, and the mountains a pure deep blue viewed from his Swiss farmhouse, quite glorious, I would so have liked to paint. But it was cold, even my window was frozen, although I had kept the fire in all night.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Wonderful
  • Paint
  • Clouds

• It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

  

  Russell Baker
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