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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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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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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My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.
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All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I'm very claustrophobic.
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You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.
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It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
