Russell Baker Quotes
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
Quotes to Explore
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
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The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.
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Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
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Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art 'lives' where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the 'self' vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
