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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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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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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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'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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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
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I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself Nicolas Love, April 1987
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Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
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Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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If only you knew how little I care. Cowardly or not, as long as he is a good kisser.
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'We know who the chicken hawks are. They talk tough on national defense and military issues and cast aspersions on others,' he said. 'When it was their turn to serve where were they? AWOL, that's where they were...the lead chickenhawk against Sen. Kerry is the vice president of the United States, Vice President Cheney.
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You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.
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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.
