Russell Baker Quotes

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

Russell Baker

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• I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Library
  • Then

• As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Party
  • Clear
  • Crystal

• Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Golf
  • Without

• I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Felt

• When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • English
  • Boy

• I want to win championships.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Win
  • Championships

• That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Human
  • See

• I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Energy
  • Deep
  • Youth

• To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Home
  • Want
  • India

• I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• Advertising is legalized lying.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Lying
  • Advertising
  • Legal

• I do have impossibly high standards.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Standards
  • High Standards

• Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Empathy

• Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?

  

  William C. Somerville
  • Children
  • War
  • Years

• The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

  

  Tom Rachman
  • Training
  • Hours
  • Fiction

• I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Together
  • Trouble
  • Pants

• Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

  

  Eban Goodstein
  • Leaders
  • Solution
  • Climate

• I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Ministers
  • Rabbi

• Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Determined
  • Classic
  • Synonym