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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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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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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I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it.
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The bourgeoisie loves so-called 'positive' types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
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My mom was as brilliant a cook as my dad is.
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I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?
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Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.
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Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.
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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.
