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.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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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 keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
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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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Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
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I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
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I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.
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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.
