Russell Baker Quotes
While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.
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I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.
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I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well.
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While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.
