Russell Baker Quotes
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
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Intentions count in your actions.
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In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.
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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
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Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.
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I quit comics in 1988 and trained as a bus driver. I used to drive those big Greyhound coaches out of New York Port Authority and down to Princeton, New Jersey. It was, hands down, the best job I ever had, and I profoundly regret having left it. I kept that job the entire time I was on staff at DC Comics in the '90s.
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
