Russell Baker Quotes
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
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When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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Dabbing was a way of fashion that turned into a dance.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
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All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
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Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
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From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.
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Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
