Russell Baker Quotes
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
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With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
