Russell Baker Quotes
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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When one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not on the way to somewhere. Or rather, one is on the way and one is also at the destination at the same time. That is really what meditation is for.
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The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.
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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
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When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
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Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
