Russell Baker Quotes
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
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Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.
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Business cycles naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesses should follow successful examples like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Saudi Aramco, Africa Rainbow Minerals, and Google in working toward mitigating joblessness and enhancing people's abilities to earn a livelihood.
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In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
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The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
