Russell Baker Quotes
Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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I write my music.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.
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Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.
