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.Russell Baker
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
Cam Gigandet -
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum -
I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
Jackson Rathbone -
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips -
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
Adam Driver -
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.
Tatyana Ali
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
OMI -
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.
Rachel McAdams -
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
Rand Paul -
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?
Ira Glass -
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Becky G -
'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.
Odette Annable
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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.
Kate Millett -
I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
Laura Wasser -
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde -
I write my music.
T-Pain -
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
Barbara Jordan -
I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
Larry Hovis
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Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor.
Alistair Horne -
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
Tad Williams -
A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.
Joe Hill -
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.
Russell Baker