Russell Baker Quotes
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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My audience is much more center right, or centrist.
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Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late; The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest; And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light, Do summon us to part, and bid good night.
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That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
