Russell Baker Quotes

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• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Life
  • Country
  • Right

• It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Easy
  • Chinese
  • Films

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Nature

• I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • World
  • City
  • Promise

• I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

  

  Pele
  • World
  • Football
  • English

• Well, I've been lucky. I've never gotten a voice polyp. I've never gotten nodes. But I do get sick, usually every tour, and to varying degrees. Sometimes it's a sinusitis.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Sick

• I don't know what my daughter will become.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Daughter

• If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Hair

• Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.

  

  David E. Sanger
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stop

• It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

  

  Denise Van Outen

• One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly

• Nuclear transplantation is a technique that has enormously facilitated the analysis of these interactions between nucleus and cytoplasm.

  

  John Gurdon

• They kissed each other with a deep joy. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Joy

• Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

  

  Eric Topol
  • Hate
  • Community
  • Drug

• Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste

  

  Zentatsu Richard Baker
  • Training

• Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Great
  • Music
  • Help

• If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Science
  • Pride
  • Professional

• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Consistency
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