Russell Baker Quotes
What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I've always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.
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I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
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It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
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I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
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You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.
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Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.
