Russell Baker Quotes
I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
Quotes to Explore
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.
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There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.
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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
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When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
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I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
