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.Russell Baker
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly -
I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
Zac Efron -
I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
Olesya Rulin -
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf -
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Ice Cube -
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.
Pamela Meyer -
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
Orson Welles -
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Lao Tzu -
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.'
Wendi McLendon-Covey
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Victoria Woodhull -
Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
Valerie Plame -
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini -
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?
Becki Newton -
I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
Harold Russell
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Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Eliot Spitzer -
I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
Eddie Redmayne -
Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D. -
My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.
Lynsey Addario -
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.
Russell Baker