Russell Baker Quotes

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Russell Baker

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• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Want
  • Myself
  • King

• We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • School
  • Society

• Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Dad

• We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Life
  • You
  • Here

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Fix

• I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Best
  • Most
  • Intentions

• I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I'm the CIA poster girl, and our home in Washington, the front door was about 20 feet from the street. I went to the agency at a certain point and asked for security on a residence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Home
  • Girl

• I have matured a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Lot
  • Matured

• I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Singing
  • Stage
  • Sharing

• The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.

  

  T. E. Hulme

• It was clear to me that men and women were equal - if not more so.

  

  Al Gore
  • Men
  • Women

• If I see an ending, I can work backward.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Work

• The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Sweet

• The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan.

  

  David Bergland
  • Country
  • America
  • Defense

• Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Question
  • Answers
  • Personal

• The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Life
  • Children
  • Passion

• Is it possible that in all those years she left me nothing of herself, or, worse, that I didn’t want to keep anything of her? It is.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Want
  • Possible

• Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Children