Russell Baker Quotes
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.Russell Baker
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
Earl Weaver -
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid -
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
Kat Graham -
I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
Taylor Sheridan -
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
Kaskade -
I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.
Gavin O'Connor -
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian -
Islam has always been a part of America's story.
Barack Obama -
I didn't become one.. .As long as I can remember I've always been one.
Claude Monet -
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus
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My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.
Patti Davis -
The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.
David Axelrod -
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
Dominique de Villepin -
I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.
Mario Vargas Llosa -
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
William Broad Generation X -
In theory, and I think in practice, I am immune to the strain of Ebola that I was infected with. But there are five different strains of Ebola.
Kent Brantly
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The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
Luis Alberto Urrea -
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
Ralph Nader -
This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.
Charles Lamb -
There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.
Marianne Williamson -
There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.
Eliphas Levi -
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker