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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• 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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• Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.'

  

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• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

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• If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter as if it were the former. That is not to say that Aquinas might not be mistaken at some point in the argument – though obviously I don’t think he is – but if you’re going to show that he is, you first need to understand what kind of argument he is giving, and thus what kind of mistake he’d be making if he’s made one at all.

  

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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

  

  Russell Baker
  • Problem
  • Huge