Russell Baker Quotes
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
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I've always just wanted people to look at me.
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
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The food was donated through various locations. We also purchase a lot of it ourselves. It's 100 percent volunteer.
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I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
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We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.
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It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
